Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 37
No one can stand the sight of such a thing; people know that, and now you know it too--you know what is in me, and what a champion of all cocks I am!"
Who acts: one, people, you · What happens: stand, know, be, sight · To what, where: sight, thing · 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 (one, people, you), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | aux |
| 4 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sight | det |
| 6 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stand | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 thing | case |
| 8 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 thing | det:predet |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 thing | det |
| 10 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sight | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 know | nsubj |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stand | parataxis |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 know | mark |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 17 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 know | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 know | obj |
| 21 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 know | advmod |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 24 know | punct |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 know | nsubj |
| 24 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | parataxis |
| 25 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 28 me | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 me | cop |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 me | case |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 know | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 what | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 what | cc |
| 31 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 know | conj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 champion | det |
| 33 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 am | nsubj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cocks | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 cocks | det |
| 36 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 champion | nmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 am | nsubj |
| 38 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 what | cop |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
| 40 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | can | no one | the sight of such thing | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sight=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | know | present | people | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | know | present | you | sight | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | know | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | is | present | in me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | present | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | sight | such thing | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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