The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 74
“The cock has crowed ever so often.
What happens: crow · To what, where: cock
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowed | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cock | det |
| 3 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 crowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 crowed | aux |
| 5 | crowed | crow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 5 crowed | advmod |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 often | advmod |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 5 crowed | advmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 crowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crow in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the cock | ever | often property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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: «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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