Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 45
With that the weather-cock broke off; but he did not kill the yard cock, although the hens said that had been his intention.
Who acts: wind, hens, intention · What happens: break off, not kill, say, be, intend · To what, where: yard cock · 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 (wind, hens, intention), 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 | _ | 6 cock | case |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 With | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cock | det |
| 4 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cock | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 weather | punct |
| 6 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 broke | obl |
| 7 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 broke | compound:prt |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 kill | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 kill | advmod |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 broke | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 cock | det |
| 16 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cock | compound |
| 17 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
| 19 | although | although | SCONJ | _ | 22 said | mark |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hens | det |
| 21 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 said | nsubj |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kill | parataxis |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 been | mark |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 been | aux |
| 25 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 said | ccomp |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 intention | nmod:poss |
| 27 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 been | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 broke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break off | past | with the weather cock | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with cock=Instrument | |||||
| 2 | not kill | past · do-support | wind | the yard cock | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the hens | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | be | past · perfect | wind's intention | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | intend | wind | nom intention «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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