Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 1
There were two cocks--one on the dung-hill, the other on the roof.
Who acts: two cocks · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two cocks), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cocks | nummod |
| 4 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 cocks | appos |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 9 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hill | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 dung | punct |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 other | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 other | det |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cocks | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 roof | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roof | det |
| 17 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 other | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two cocks | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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