Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Money-box, sentence 20

The clock talked politics--"tick, tick;" he professed to know what was the time of day, but there was a whisper that he did not go correctly.

Who acts: clock, theatre, time, whisper · What happens: talk, profess, know, be, not go · To what, where: politics, whisper · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Money-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clock, theatre, time, whisper), 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 clock	det
2	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 talked	nsubj
3	talked	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	politics	politics	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 talked	obj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 tick	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 tick	punct
7	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 politics	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 tick	punct
9	tick	tick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 politics	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 professed	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 professed	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 professed	nsubj
13	professed	profess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 talked	parataxis
14	to	to	PART	_	15 know	mark
15	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 professed	xcomp
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 know	ccomp
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 what	cop
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 time	det
19	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 what	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 day	case
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 time	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 was	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 was	cc
24	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	25 was	expl
25	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 professed	conj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 whisper	det
27	whisper	whisper	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 was	nsubj
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 go	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 go	nsubj
30	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 go	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 go	advmod
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 whisper	acl
33	correctly	correctly	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 talked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	talk	past	the clock	politics and tick and tick			vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent politics=Patient
2	profess	past	theatre				vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	know	to-infinitive	theatre not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	is a	past	the time of day				tree rules
5	be	past	a whisper		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	not go	past · do-support	theatre	a whisper not said here		correctly property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location whisper=Theme

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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