Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 41
The yard cock lays no eggs, and I am too lazy to do so; if I liked, I could lay a wind-egg.
Who acts: yard cock, I · What happens: lay, be, do, like · To what, where: eggs, wind 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 (yard cock, I), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 2 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cock | compound |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lays | nsubj |
| 4 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 eggs | det |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 lays | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lazy | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lazy | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 lazy | nsubj |
| 10 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lazy | cop |
| 11 | too | too | ADV | _ | 12 lazy | advmod |
| 12 | lazy | lazy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lays | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 do | mark |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 lazy | xcomp |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 do | advmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 lay | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 liked | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 liked | nsubj |
| 19 | liked | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 lay | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 liked | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 lay | nsubj |
| 22 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lay | aux |
| 23 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 lays | parataxis |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 egg | det |
| 25 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 egg | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 wind | punct |
| 27 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lay | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | the yard cock | no eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | lazy property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | like a condition, not said to happen | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | lay | could | I | a wind 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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