Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 17
He did not even turn round, for he could not; and yet he was young and freshly cast, but prudent and sedate.
Who acts: yard · What happens: not turn round, 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 (yard), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turn | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 turn | advmod |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | round | round | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 could | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 could | case |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 could | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 turn | advcl |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 could | advmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 young | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 young | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 17 young | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 young | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 young | cop |
| 17 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 turn | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cast | cc |
| 19 | freshly | freshly | ADV | _ | 20 cast | advmod |
| 20 | cast | cast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 young | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prudent | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 prudent | cc |
| 23 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 young | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sedate | cc |
| 25 | sedate | sedate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prudent | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not turn round | past · do-support | yard | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | yard | yet | young property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | be | yard not said here | tree rules |
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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