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title: And the pendulum of the old clock went to and fro, and the hands tur… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And the pendulum of the old clock went to and fro, and the hands turned round; and as time passed on, everything in the room grew older, but no one seemed to notice it. Who acts: pendulum, hands, everything, one. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old House, sentence 54

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And the pendulum of the old clock went to and fro, and the hands turned round; and as time passed on, everything in the room grew older, but no one seemed to notice it.

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**Who acts:** pendulum, hands, everything, one · **What happens:** go, fro, turn round, pass on, grow, seem · **To what, where:** time, pendulum

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old House. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pendulum, hands, everything, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:131:54
# text = And the pendulum of the old clock went to and fro, and the hands turned round; and as time passed on, everything in the room grew older, but no one seemed to notice it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pendulum	pendulum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	clock	clock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	round	round	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
22	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	29	nsubj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
30	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
35	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	xcomp	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the pendulum of the old clock |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive | the pendulum of the old clock *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn round** | past | the hands |  |  |  |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **pass on** | participle |  | time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **grow** | past | everything |  |  |  | time | old *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seem** | past | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **notice** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | pendulum |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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