Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 24
The weather-cock was puffed up, and that quality would have made him interesting in the eyes of the cucumber if it had known it, but it had eyes only for the yard cock, who was now in the yard with it.
Who acts: world, yard cock · What happens: puff up, make, know, have, be · To what, where: weather cock, quality, eyes
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 (world, yard 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 | 4 cock | det |
| 2 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cock | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 weather | punct |
| 4 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 puffed | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puffed | aux:pass |
| 6 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 puffed | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 quality | det |
| 11 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 made | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 made | aux |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 puffed | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | interesting | interesting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 eyes | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 eyes | det |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 cucumber | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cucumber | det |
| 22 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 eyes | nmod |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 known | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 known | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 known | aux |
| 26 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 known | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 had | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 had | cc |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 had | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 puffed | parataxis |
| 32 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 had | obj |
| 33 | only | only | ADV | _ | 37 cock | advmod |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 cock | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 cock | det |
| 36 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cock | compound |
| 37 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 had | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 yard | punct |
| 39 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 yard | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 yard | cop |
| 41 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 yard | advmod |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 yard | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 yard | det |
| 44 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 cock | appos |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 it | case |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 yard | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 puffed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | puff up | past · passive | the weather cock | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | |||||
| 2 | make | would · perfect · passive | that quality | the eyes of the cucumber | interesting property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product | |||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | quality | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have | past | world | eyes | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the yard cock | now | in the yard; with world | 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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