English Fairy Tales, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune, sentence 51
Of course that was the cock-a-doodle-do.
Who acts: cock · What happens: be · To what, where: doodle do
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, How Jack Went to Seek His Fortune. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 do | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 do | det |
| 6 | cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | nsubj |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 do | det |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 a | punct |
| 10 | doodle | doodle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 do | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 doodle | punct |
| 12 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | cock | the doodle do | of that | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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