Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 16

The hens, chicks, and even the cock sought shelter; the wind tore down the planks between the two yards with a crash; the tiles came tumbling down, but the weather-cock sat firm.

Who acts: hens, tiles, weather cock · What happens: seek, come, tumble down, sit · To what, where: shelter

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 (hens, tiles, weather cock), 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	10 sought	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chicks	punct
4	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hens	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sought	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sought	cc
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 cock	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cock	det
9	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	nsubj
10	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	obj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 tore	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tore	det
14	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tore	compound
15	tore	tore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sought	obl
16	down	down	ADP	_	18 planks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 planks	det
18	planks	plank	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tore	nmod
19	between	between	ADP	_	22 yards	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 yards	det
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 yards	nummod
22	yards	yard	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 planks	nmod
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 crash	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 crash	det
25	crash	crash	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yards	nmod
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 came	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tiles	det
28	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 came	nsubj
29	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sought	parataxis
30	tumbling	tumble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 came	xcomp
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 tumbling	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 sat	punct
33	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 sat	cc
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 cock	det
35	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 cock	compound
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 weather	punct
37	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 sat	nsubj
38	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 came	conj
39	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 sat	xcomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seek	past	the hens and chicks	shelter	the wind tore down the planks between the two yards with a crash obl	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
2	come	past	the tiles			tree rules
3	tumble down	gerund	the tiles not said here		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	sit	past	the weather cock		firm property	vn assuming_position-50 «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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