Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 244
The pigeons cooed over her, the turkey-cocks gobbled, and the ducks quacked.
Who acts: pigeons, turkey cocks, ducks · What happens: coo, gobble, quack
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pigeons, turkey 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 pigeons | det |
| 2 | pigeons | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 cooed | nsubj |
| 3 | cooed | coo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cooed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gobbled | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cocks | det |
| 8 | turkey | turkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cocks | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 turkey | punct |
| 10 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 gobbled | nsubj |
| 11 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cooed | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 quacked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 quacked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ducks | det |
| 15 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 quacked | nsubj |
| 16 | quacked | quack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 gobbled | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cooed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | coo | past | the pigeons | over family | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | gobble | past | the turkey cocks | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | quack | past | the ducks | 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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