Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 38
With that the yard cock flapped his wings, made his comb swell up, and crowed again; and they all shuddered, the hens and the little chicks--but they were very proud that one of their number was such a champion of all cocks.
Who acts: yard cock, comb, cocks, one · What happens: flap, make, swell up, crow, shudder, be · To what, where: wings, cocks, champion
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 (yard cock, comb, cocks, one), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 that | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 flapped | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cock | det |
| 4 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cock | compound |
| 5 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flapped | nsubj |
| 6 | flapped | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 flapped | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 made | punct |
| 10 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flapped | conj |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 comb | nmod:poss |
| 12 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swell | nsubj |
| 13 | swell | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 made | ccomp |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 swell | compound:prt |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crowed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 crowed | cc |
| 17 | crowed | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flapped | conj |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 17 crowed | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 shuddered | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 shuddered | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 shuddered | nsubj |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 shuddered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | shuddered | shudder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flapped | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hens | punct |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 hens | det |
| 26 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 shuddered | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 chicks | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 chicks | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 chicks | amod |
| 30 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 hens | conj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 proud | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 proud | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 proud | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 proud | cop |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 proud | advmod |
| 36 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shuddered | parataxis |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 champion | mark |
| 38 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 champion | nsubj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 number | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 number | nmod:poss |
| 41 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 one | nmod |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 champion | cop |
| 43 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 champion | det:predet |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 champion | det |
| 45 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 proud | advcl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 cocks | case |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 cocks | det |
| 48 | cocks | cock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 champion | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flap | past | the yard cock | champion's wings | with that | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 2 | make | past | the yard cock not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | swell up | present | champion's comb | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | crow | past | the yard cock not said here | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | shudder | participle · passive | cocks = cock | the hens and the little chicks obl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | cocks = cock | proud property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | one of cocks's number | such champion | of all cocks | 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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