Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 51

The tail-feathers of the fowl were very short, and it winked with both its eyes, and looked very cunning, as it said "Cluck, cluck."

Who acts: tail feathers, fowl · What happens: be, wink, look, say, cluck · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tail feathers, fowl), 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	4 feathers	det
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feathers	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 tail	punct
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 short	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fowl	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fowl	det
7	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feathers	nmod
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 short	cop
9	very	very	ADV	_	10 short	advmod
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 winked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 winked	cc
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 winked	nsubj
14	winked	wink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 short	conj
15	with	with	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
16	both	both	CCONJ	_	18 eyes	cc:preconj
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 winked	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 looked	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 looked	cc
21	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 short	parataxis
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 cunning	advmod
23	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 looked	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 said	punct
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 said	mark
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 said	nsubj
27	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 looked	conj
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	29 Cluck	punct
29	Cluck	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 said	ccomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cluck	punct
31	cluck	cluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 Cluck	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 short	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 short	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the tail feathers of the fowl	short property	tree rules
2	wink	past	fowl	with fowl's eyes	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	look	past		cunning property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past	fowl		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	cluck in a quote	infinitive			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cluck in a quote	infinitive			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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