--- title: The weather-cock was puffed up, and that quality would have made him… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The weather-cock was puffed up, and that quality would have made him interesting in the eyes of the cucumber if it had known it, but it had eyes only for the yard cock, who was now in the yard with it. Who acts: world, yard cock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (world, yard 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:19:24 # text = The weather-cock was puffed up, and that quality would have made him interesting in the eyes of the cucumber if it had known it, but it had eyes only for the yard cock, who was now in the yard with it. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 weather weather NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 5 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 puffed puff VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADP RP _ 6 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 10 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 11 quality quality NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 13 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 aux _ _ 14 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 parataxis _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 interesting interesting ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 cucumber cucumber NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 23 if if SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 26 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 advcl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 but but CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 32 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ _ 33 only only ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 44 nsubj _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 cop _ _ 41 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 44 advmod _ _ 42 in in ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 appos _ _ 45 with with ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **puff up** | past · passive | | the weather cock | | | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Source | | 2 | **make** | would · perfect · passive | | that quality | | the eyes of the cucumber | | interesting *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary he=Product | | 3 | **know** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · perfect · passive | | quality | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | past | world | eyes | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | the yard cock | | | | now | in the yard; with world | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/25/) - ↑ back to [The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/)