Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of a Mother, sentence 13

In the corner of the room the old clock began to strike; "whirr" went the chains, the heavy weight sank to the ground, and the clock stopped; and the poor mother rushed out of the house calling for her child.

Who acts: old clock, whirr, heavy weight, clock, poor mother · What happens: begin, strike, go, sink, stop, rush out · To what, where: corner, chains, house · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Story of a Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old clock, whirr, heavy weight, clock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corner	det
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 clock	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 clock	amod
9	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 strike	mark
12	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 went	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 whirr	punct
15	whirr	whirr	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 went	nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 whirr	punct
17	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 chains	det
19	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 went	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 sank	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 weight	det
22	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 weight	amod
23	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	nsubj
24	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 went	parataxis
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 ground	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ground	det
27	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stopped	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 stopped	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 clock	det
31	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stopped	nsubj
32	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 sank	conj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 rushed	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 rushed	cc
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 mother	det
36	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 mother	amod
37	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rushed	nsubj
38	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 began	parataxis
39	out	out	ADP	_	42 house	case
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 house	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 house	det
42	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 rushed	obl
43	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	38 rushed	advcl
44	for	for	ADP	_	46 child	case
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 child	nmod:poss
46	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 calling	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the old clock		the corner of the room		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	strike	to-infinitive	the old clock not said here				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	past	whirr	the chains			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chain=Theme
4	sink	past	the heavy weight			to the ground	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	stop	past	the clock				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	rush out	past	the poor mother	the house			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Trajectory
7	call	gerund	the poor mother not said here			for mother's child	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for child=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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