Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 29
"Garden plant!" he said to the cucumber, and in that one word his deep learning showed itself, and it forgot that he was pecking at her and eating it up. "
Who acts: hill, deep learning, learning · What happens: say, show, forget, peck, eat up · To what, where: cucumber, learning · 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 (hill, deep learning, learning), 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 | _ | 3 plant | punct |
| 2 | Garden | Garden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 plant | compound |
| 3 | plant | plant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 plant | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 plant | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 cucumber | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cucumber | det |
| 10 | cucumber | cucumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 showed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 showed | cc |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 word | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 word | det |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 word | nummod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showed | obl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 learning | nmod:poss |
| 18 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 learning | amod |
| 19 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 showed | nsubj |
| 20 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 21 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 showed | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgot | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 forgot | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 forgot | nsubj |
| 25 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 pecking | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pecking | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 pecking | aux |
| 29 | pecking | peck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 forgot | advcl |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 her | case |
| 31 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 pecking | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 eating | cc |
| 33 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 pecking | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 eating | obj |
| 35 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 eating | compound:prt |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgot | punct |
| 37 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | hill | the cucumber | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cucumber=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | show | past | hill's deep learning | learning | in that one word | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Patient in word=Topic | |||
| 3 | forget | past | learning | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | peck | past · progressive | hill | at crow | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at she=Patient | ||||
| 5 | eat up | gerund | hill not said here | learning | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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