Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Dream of Little Tuk, sentence 17

“Kickery-ki! kluk! kluk! kluk!”--that was an old hen who came creeping along, and she was from Kjoge.

Who acts: that, old hen, book · What happens: be, come, creep · To what, where: old hen, Kjoge

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Dream of Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, old hen, book), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 ki	punct
2	Kickery	kickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ki	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 Kickery	punct
4	ki	ki	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kluk	compound
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 ki	punct
6	kluk	kluk	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kluk	compound
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 kluk	punct
8	kluk	kluk	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kluk	compound
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 kluk	punct
10	kluk	kluk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 kluk	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 kluk	punct
13	--	--	PUNCT	_	18 hen	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 hen	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hen	cop
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hen	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hen	amod
18	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kluk	appos
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 hen	acl:relcl
21	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 came	xcomp
22	along	along	ADV	_	21 creeping	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Kjoge	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Kjoge	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 Kjoge	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 Kjoge	cop
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 Kjoge	case
28	Kjoge	Kjoge	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 kluk	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kluk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	a old hen			tree rules
2	come	past	a old hen				tree rules
3	creep	gerund	a old hen not said here			along property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	book		Kjoge		tree rules

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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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