Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god, sentence 72

Then the turkey-cock puffed himself out as large as he could, and inquired who he was; and the ducks waddled backwards, crying, "Quack, quack."

Who acts: turkey cock, ducks · What happens: puff out, inquire, waddle, cry · To what, where: cock, Quack

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ole-luk-oie, the Dream-god. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turkey cock, ducks), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 puffed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cock	det
3	turkey	turkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cock	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 turkey	punct
5	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puffed	nsubj
6	puffed	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 puffed	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 puffed	compound:prt
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 large	advmod
10	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 puffed	advcl
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 could	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 large	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 inquired	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 inquired	cc
16	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puffed	conj
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 inquired	obj
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 was	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 who	acl:relcl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 waddled	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 waddled	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ducks	det
23	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 waddled	nsubj
24	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puffed	parataxis
25	backwards	backwards	ADV	_	24 waddled	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crying	punct
27	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 waddled	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 Quack	punct
29	"	"	PUNCT	_	30 Quack	punct
30	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crying	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 quack	punct
32	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Quack	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 crying	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 waddled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	puff out	past	the turkey cock	cock	then		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Source
2	inquire speech: other	past	the turkey cock not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent who=Recipient
3	waddle	past	the ducks			backwards property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cry speech: express	gerund	the ducks not said here	Quack and quack			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quack=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: «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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