The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 98

And the cock stood up and flapped his wings three times, crowing “coquerico” with a voice like a trumpet, and at each crow there fell from his beak golden drops, and diamonds as large as peas.

Who acts: cock, crow · What happens: stand up, flap, crow, fall · To what, where: wings, coquerico, golden drops, beak

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, crow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 stood	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cock	det
3	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stood	nsubj
4	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 stood	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 flapped	cc
7	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wings	nmod:poss
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flapped	obj
10	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 times	nummod
11	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 flapped	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 crowing	punct
13	crowing	crow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 flapped	advcl
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 coquerico	punct
15	coquerico	coquerico	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crowing	obj
16	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 coquerico	punct
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 voice	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 voice	det
19	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crowing	obl
20	like	like	ADP	_	22 trumpet	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 trumpet	det
22	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 voice	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fell	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 fell	cc
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 crow	case
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 crow	det
27	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	nsubj
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 crow	advmod
29	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stood	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 beak	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 beak	nmod:poss
32	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fell	obl
33	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 drops	amod
34	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fell	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 large	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 large	cc
37	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 large	nsubj
38	as	as	ADV	_	39 large	advmod
39	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stood	conj
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 peas	case
41	peas	pea	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 large	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the cock					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	flap	past	the cock not said here	lid's wings		time		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	crow	gerund	the cock not said here	coquerico			with a voice like a trumpet	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coquerico=Topic
4	fall	past	each crow	golden drops	lid's beak			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient drop=Extent from beak=Initial_State

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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