Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 39
They clucked and chirped till the weather-cock heard; he heard it; but he did not stir.
Who acts: cocks, champion · What happens: cluck, chirp, hear, not stir · To what, where: weather cock, comb
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 (cocks, champion), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 clucked | nsubj |
| 2 | clucked | cluck | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 chirped | cc |
| 4 | chirped | chirp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clucked | conj |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 cock | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cock | det |
| 7 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cock | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 weather | punct |
| 9 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chirped | obl |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cock | acl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 heard | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | nsubj |
| 13 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 clucked | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 heard | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 stir | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 stir | cc |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stir | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stir | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 stir | advmod |
| 20 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 clucked | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 clucked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cluck | past | cocks = cock | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | chirp | past | cocks = cock not said here | till the weather cock | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | participle | the weather cock not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | hear | past | champion | comb | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | not stir | past · do-support | champion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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