Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother, sentence 74
The elder-tree spreads its branches over it, and the cock struts about and scratches for the hens.
Who acts: elder tree, cock · What happens: spread, strut, scratch · To what, where: branches, stove
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Elder-tree Mother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elder tree, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 tree | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 elder | punct |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spreads | nsubj |
| 5 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 branches | nmod:poss |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spreads | obj |
| 8 | over | over | ADP | _ | 9 it | case |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spreads | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 struts | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 struts | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cock | det |
| 13 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 struts | nsubj |
| 14 | struts | strut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spreads | parataxis |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 struts | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 scratches | cc |
| 17 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 struts | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 hens | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hens | det |
| 20 | hens | hen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 scratches | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | the elder tree | tree's branches | stove | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over it=Destination | |||
| 2 | strut | present | the cock | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scratch | present | the cock not said here | for the hens | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for hen=Theme |
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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