Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 12
His crowing is music, and wherever he goes one knows what a trumpeter is like!
Who acts: crowing, yard, one · What happens: be, go, know, crow · To what, where: music, trumpeter
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 (crowing, yard, one), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 crowing | nmod:poss |
| 2 | crowing | crowing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 music | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 music | cop |
| 4 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 goes | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 goes | cc |
| 7 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 goes | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 goes | nsubj |
| 9 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 music | parataxis |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 knows | nsubj |
| 11 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 goes | parataxis |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 trumpeter | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 trumpeter | det |
| 14 | trumpeter | trumpeter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 knows | obj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 like | cop |
| 16 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 14 trumpeter | discourse |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 music | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | yard's crowing | music | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | yard | wherever property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | present | one | a trumpeter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer trumpeter=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | crow | yard | nom crowing «communication intransitive»: poss=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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