The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 4

The Cock that had won the battle flew to the top of the hen-house, and, proudly flapping his wings, crowed with all his might to tell the world about his victory.

Who acts: Cock · What happens: win, fly, flap, crow, tell · To what, where: battle, wings, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cock), 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 Cock	det
2	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 won	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 won	aux
5	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Cock	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 battle	det
7	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 won	obj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 top	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 top	det
11	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 flew	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	16 house	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 house	det
14	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 house	compound
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 hen	punct
16	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 top	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flapping	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flapping	cc
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flapping	punct
20	proudly	proudly	ADV	_	21 flapping	advmod
21	flapping	flap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 flew	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wings	nmod:poss
23	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 flapping	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 crowed	punct
25	crowed	crow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 flapping	conj
26	with	with	SCONJ	_	31 tell	mark
27	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 tell	det:predet
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tell	nmod:poss
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	aux
30	to	to	PART	_	31 tell	mark
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 crowed	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 world	det
33	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	iobj
34	about	about	ADP	_	36 victory	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 victory	nmod:poss
36	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	win	past · perfect	the Cock	the battle			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality
2	fly	past	the Cock			to the top of the hen house result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to top=Result
3	flap	gerund	the Cock not said here	farmyard's wings		proudly property	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	crow	participle	the Cock not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	might	the Cock not said here		the world	about farmyard's victory	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent world=Recipient about victory=Topic

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 Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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