Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 33
And hens and chicks clucked and chirped, and the cock announced a great piece of news.
Who acts: hens, cock · What happens: cluck, chirp, announce · To what, where: great piece
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 | _ | 5 clucked | cc |
| 2 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 clucked | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chicks | cc |
| 4 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hens | conj |
| 5 | clucked | cluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 chirped | cc |
| 7 | chirped | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clucked | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 announced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 announced | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 announced | nsubj |
| 12 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 clucked | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 piece | amod |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 announced | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 news | case |
| 17 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 clucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cluck | past | hens and chicks | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chirp | past | hens and chicks not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | announce speech: other | past | the cock | a great piece of news | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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