Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 40
"Everything is very stupid," the weather-cock said to himself. "
Who acts: Everything, weather cock · What happens: be, say · To what, where: champion · 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 (Everything, weather 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 stupid | punct |
| 2 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 5 stupid | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stupid | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 stupid | advmod |
| 5 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cock | det |
| 9 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cock | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 weather | punct |
| 11 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stupid | parataxis |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 himself | case |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 said | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stupid | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 stupid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Everything | stupid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the weather cock | champion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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