Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 47
Better to crow than to be puffed up and break off!"
What happens: crow, puff up, break off
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: 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 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 crow | mark |
| 3 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Better | csubj |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 puffed | mark |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 puffed | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 puffed | aux:pass |
| 7 | puffed | puff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 crow | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 puffed | compound:prt |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 break | cc |
| 10 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 crow | conj |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 break | compound:prt |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Better | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | puff up | to-infinitive · passive | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V» | ||||||
| 3 | break off | infinitive | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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