Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 53

And it is well known that if the yard-cock belonging to this family happened to crow at midnight, they would declare it was morning, although the watchman and all the clocks in the town were proclaiming the hour of twelve at night.

Who acts: yard cock, newspaper, subject, watchman · What happens: know, belong, happen, crow, declare, be · To what, where: subject, morning · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard cock, newspaper, subject, watchman), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 known	cc
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 known	nsubj:pass
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 known	aux:pass
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 known	advmod
5	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 declare	mark
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 happened	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cock	det
9	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cock	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 yard	punct
11	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 happened	nsubj
12	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 cock	acl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 family	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 family	det
15	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 belonging	obl
16	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 declare	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 crow	mark
18	crow	crow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 happened	xcomp
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 midnight	case
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 crow	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 happened	punct
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 declare	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 declare	aux
24	declare	declare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 known	ccomp
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 morning	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 morning	cop
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 declare	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 proclaiming	punct
29	although	although	SCONJ	_	40 proclaiming	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 watchman	det
31	watchman	watchman	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 proclaiming	nsubj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 clocks	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 clocks	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 clocks	det
35	clocks	clock	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 watchman	conj
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 town	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 town	det
38	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 clocks	nmod
39	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 proclaiming	aux
40	proclaiming	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 declare	advcl
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 hour	det
42	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 proclaiming	obj
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 twelve	case
44	twelve	twelve	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 hour	nmod
45	at	at	ADP	_	46 night	case
46	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 proclaiming	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 known	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	present · passive		subject		well property	tree rules
2	belong	gerund	the yard cock not said here			to this family	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
3	happen a condition, not said to happen	past	the yard cock				tree rules
4	crow	to-infinitive	the yard cock not said here		midnight		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	declare speech: other	would	newspaper				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	subject	morning			tree rules
7	proclaim	past · progressive	the watchman and all clocks in the town		hour; night		vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: 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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