Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 20

The birds of passage had also paid the weather-cock a visit and told him of foreign countries, of airy caravans and robber stories that made one's hair stand on end.

Who acts: airy caravans · What happens: pay, tell, make · To what, where: birds, airy caravans, hair stand, end · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (airy caravans), 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 birds	det
2	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 paid	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 passage	case
4	passage	passage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 birds	nmod
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	aux
6	also	also	ADV	_	7 paid	advmod
7	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cock	det
9	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cock	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 weather	punct
11	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 visit	det
13	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 paid	conj
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	iobj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 countries	case
18	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 countries	amod
19	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 caravans	punct
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 caravans	case
22	airy	airy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 caravans	amod
23	caravans	caravan	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 told	iobj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stories	cc
25	robber	robber	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stories	compound
26	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 caravans	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 made	nsubj
28	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 caravans	acl:relcl
29	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 stand	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 one	case
31	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stand	compound
32	stand	stand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obj
33	on	on	ADP	_	34 end	case
34	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past · perfect · passive		the birds of passage				tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	past			airy caravans and robber stories		of foreign countries	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient caravan=Topic
3	make	past	airy caravans and robber stories	one's hair stand		on end		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product

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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