Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 32
"Cock-a-doodle-doo!" he crowed, "the chickens will grow up into great hens at once, if I cry it out in the poultry-yard of the world!"
Who acts: Cock, hill, chickens · What happens: doo, crow, grow up, cry out · To what, where: doo · 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 (Cock, hill, chickens), 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 | _ | 8 doo | punct |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doo | nsubj |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 doo | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 doo | det |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 a | punct |
| 6 | doodle | doodle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 doo | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 doodle | punct |
| 8 | doo | doo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crowed | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 doo | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 doo | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 crowed | nsubj |
| 12 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 grow | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 chickens | det |
| 16 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 grow | aux |
| 18 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 crowed | ccomp |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 grow | compound:prt |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 hens | case |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 hens | amod |
| 22 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grow | obl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 once | case |
| 24 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 grow | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 cry | punct |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 cry | mark |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 cry | nsubj |
| 28 | cry | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 grow | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 cry | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 cry | compound:prt |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 yard | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 yard | det |
| 33 | poultry | poultry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 yard | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 poultry | punct |
| 35 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 cry | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 yard | nmod |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 crowed | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 crowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doo in a quote | Cock | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | crow | past | hill | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | grow up in a quote | future | the chickens | into great hens | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | ||||
| 4 | cry out speech: express a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | hill | doo | in the poultry yard of the world | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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