Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 34
"A cock can lay an egg!
Who acts: cock · What happens: lay · To what, where: egg
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), 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 | _ | 5 lay | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | aux |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 egg | det |
| 7 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay in a quote | can | a cock | a egg | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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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