Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 2
They were both arrogant, but which of the two rendered most service?
Who acts: cocks · What happens: be, render · To what, where: most service
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 (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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrogant | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrogant | cop |
| 3 | both | both | ADV | _ | 4 arrogant | advmod |
| 4 | arrogant | arrogant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rendered | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 rendered | cc |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 rendered | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 two | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 two | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 rendered | obl |
| 11 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 arrogant | conj |
| 12 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 service | amod |
| 13 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rendered | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrogant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | cocks = cock | arrogant, both property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | render | past | cocks = cock not said here | most service | of the two | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient service=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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