Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 15
Cluck, cluck, cluck," cried a hen as she crept towards him. "
Who acts: Cluck · What happens: cluck, cry, creep · To what, where: hen
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cluck), 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 | Cluck | cluck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cluck | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cluck | punct |
| 3 | cluck | cluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cluck | punct |
| 5 | cluck | cluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 cluck | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 cluck | conj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hen | det |
| 10 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 crept | mark |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crept | nsubj |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | advcl |
| 14 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 crept | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cluck | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cluck | infinitive | Cluck | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | cluck | infinitive | Cluck not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Cluck not said here | a hen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic | ||||
| 4 | creep in a quote | past | Cluck | towards Tuk | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
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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