Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 7
The hens, the ducks, and all the animals in the next yard are creatures too.
Who acts: hens · What happens: be · To what, where: creatures
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 (hens), 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 | 2 hens | det |
| 2 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 creatures | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ducks | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ducks | det |
| 5 | ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hens | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 animals | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 animals | cc |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 animals | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 animals | det |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hens | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 yard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 yard | det |
| 13 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 yard | amod |
| 14 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 animals | nmod |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 creatures | cop |
| 16 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 16 creatures | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 creatures | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the hens and the ducks and all animals in the next yard | creatures | tree rules |
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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