Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 31

The hens and the chickens came, for where one runs the others run too; they clucked, and chirped, and looked at the cock, and were proud that he was of their kind.

Who acts: hens, one, others, hill · What happens: come, run, cluck, chirp, look, be

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, one, others, hill), 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 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 chickens	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chickens	det
5	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hens	conj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 runs	punct
8	for	for	SCONJ	_	11 runs	mark
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 runs	advmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 runs	nsubj
11	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 run	nsubj
14	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 runs	conj
15	too	too	ADV	_	14 run	advmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 clucked	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 clucked	nsubj
18	clucked	cluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 chirped	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 chirped	cc
21	chirped	chirp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 looked	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 looked	cc
24	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 chirped	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 cock	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 cock	det
27	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 looked	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 proud	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 proud	cc
30	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 proud	cop
31	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 came	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 kind	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 kind	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 kind	cop
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 kind	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 kind	nmod:poss
37	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 proud	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	the hens and the chickens		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	present	one		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	present	the others		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	cluck	past	hens = hen		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	chirp	past			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	look	past		at the cock	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at cock=Theme
7	is	past		proud property	tree rules
8	is	past	hill	of hens's kind	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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