Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2, sentence 89
The town was perfectly still when the clocks struck a quarter to twelve.
Who acts: town, clocks · What happens: be, strike · To what, where: quarter
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Travelling Companion, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, clocks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 town | det |
| 2 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 still | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 still | cop |
| 4 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 5 still | advmod |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 struck | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 clocks | det |
| 8 | clocks | clock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 struck | nsubj |
| 9 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 still | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 quarter | det |
| 11 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 struck | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 twelve | case |
| 13 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 struck | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the town | perfectly, still property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | strike | past | the clocks | a quarter | to twelve result | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent quarter=Patient to twelve=Result |
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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