Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 104
Then the cock from the neighboring yard stuck his head in, and crowed with steam-engine power.
Who acts: cock · What happens: neighbor, stick, crow · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 stuck | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 yard | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 yard | det |
| 6 | neighboring | neighbor | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 yard | amod |
| 7 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cock | nmod |
| 8 | stuck | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stuck | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 8 stuck | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crowed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 crowed | cc |
| 14 | crowed | crow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stuck | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 power | case |
| 16 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 engine | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 steam | punct |
| 18 | engine | engine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | compound |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crowed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stuck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | neighbor | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | stick | past | the cock from the neighboring yard | cock's head | then | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||
| 3 | crow | participle | the cock from the neighboring yard not said here | with engine power | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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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