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title: And it is well known that if the yard-cock belonging to this family… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And it is well known that if the yard-cock belonging to this family happened to crow at midnight, they would declare it was morning, although the watchman and all the clocks in the town were proclaiming the hour of twelve at night. Who acts: yard cock, newspaper, subject, watchman. A sentence of «Fa
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Cheerful Temper, sentence 53

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And it is well known that if the yard-cock belonging to this family happened to crow at midnight, they would declare it was morning, although the watchman and all the clocks in the town were proclaiming the hour of twelve at night.

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**Who acts:** yard cock, newspaper, subject, watchman · **What happens:** know, belong, happen, crow, declare, be · **To what, where:** subject, morning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Cheerful Temper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard cock, newspaper, subject, watchman), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:16:53
# text = And it is well known that if the yard-cock belonging to this family happened to crow at midnight, they would declare it was morning, although the watchman and all the clocks in the town were proclaiming the hour of twelve at night.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	crow	crow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	declare	declare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
29	although	although	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	clocks	clock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	proclaiming	proclaim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	42	nmod	_	_
45	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present · passive |  | subject |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **belong** | gerund | the yard cock *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to this family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **happen** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the yard cock |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crow** | to-infinitive | the yard cock *not said here* |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **declare** *speech: other* | would | newspaper |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | past | subject | morning |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **proclaim** | past · progressive | the watchman and all clocks in the town |  |  |  | hour; night |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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**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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