Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 28
And the hens and chickens came up on the dung-hill, and the cock strutted about like a lord.
Who acts: hens, cock · What happens: come up, strut · To what, where: dung hill
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 (hens, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hens | det |
| 3 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 came | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 chickens | cc |
| 5 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hens | conj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 came | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 10 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hill | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 dung | punct |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 strutted | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 strutted | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cock | det |
| 16 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strutted | nsubj |
| 17 | strutted | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 strutted | advmod |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 lord | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 lord | det |
| 21 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 strutted | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | the hens and chickens | the dung hill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hill=Location | ||||
| 2 | strut | past | the cock | like a lord; about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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