Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 26
"What do you think of that crowing?" said the yard cock to the hens and chickens. "
Who acts: you, that, yard cock · What happens: think, crow, say · 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 (you, that, 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 think | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 think | nsubj |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 crowing | mark |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 crowing | nsubj |
| 8 | crowing | crow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 think | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cock | det |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cock | compound |
| 14 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hens | det |
| 17 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cock | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 chickens | cc |
| 19 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hens | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | crow in a quote | gerund | that | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the yard cock | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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