Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 42
Sleep was still in his eyes, but yet he crowed out: "Three hens have died of their unfortunate love for a cock.
Who acts: Sleep, neighbour, Three hens, eyes · What happens: be, crow out, die, love · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sleep, neighbour, Three hens, eyes), 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 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eyes | cop |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 eyes | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eyes | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crowed | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 crowed | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 crowed | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 crowed | nsubj |
| 11 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 crowed | compound:prt |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 died | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 died | punct |
| 15 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 hens | nummod |
| 16 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 died | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 died | aux |
| 18 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 crowed | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 love | nmod:poss |
| 21 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 love | amod |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 died | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 cock | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cock | det |
| 25 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Sleep | neighbour's eyes | still | tree rules | |||
| 2 | crow out | past | neighbour | neighbour's eyes not said here | yet | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic | |||
| 3 | die in a quote | present · perfect | Three hens | of eyes's unfortunate love for a cock | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of love=Causer | ||||
| 4 | love in a quote | eyes = eye | for a cock | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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