The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 39

The great clock was in the turret, as she knew, though the weights hung down into the gallery.

Who acts: great clock, Stalk, weights · What happens: be, know, hang down · To what, where: turret, gallery · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, 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 (great clock, Stalk, weights), 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	3 clock	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 clock	amod
3	clock	clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turret	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turret	cop
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 turret	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 turret	det
7	turret	turret	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 knew	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turret	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hung	punct
13	though	though	SCONJ	_	16 hung	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 weights	det
15	weights	weight	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 hung	nsubj
16	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 knew	ccomp
17	down	down	ADV	_	16 hung	advmod
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 gallery	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 gallery	det
20	gallery	gallery	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hung	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turret	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the great clock	the turret		tree rules
2	know	past	Stalk			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hang down	past	the weights	the gallery	down property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into gallery=Destination

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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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