Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 75

The hens clucked, and the cocks crowed, and the ducks waddled to and fro, and said, "Quack, quack!"

Who acts: hens, cocks, ducks · What happens: cluck, crow, waddle, fro, say · To what, where: Quack · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hens, cocks, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 clucked	nsubj
3	clucked	cluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 crowed	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crowed	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cocks	det
7	cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crowed	nsubj
8	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clucked	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 waddled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 waddled	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ducks	det
12	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 waddled	nsubj
13	waddled	waddle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clucked	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 waddled	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 fro	cc
16	fro	fro	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 waddled	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clucked	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Quack	punct
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Quack	punct
22	Quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 said	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 quack	punct
24	quack	quack	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Quack	conj
25	!	!	PUNCT	_	22 Quack	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 Quack	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	cluck	past	the hens		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	crow	past	the cocks		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	waddle	past	the ducks		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fro	infinitive	the ducks not said here		tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	the hens not said here	Quack and quack	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: 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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