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title: "What do you think of that crowing?" said the yard cock to the hens… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: "What do you think of that crowing?" said the yard cock to the hens and chickens. " Who acts: you, that, yard cock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 26

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"What do you think of that crowing?" said the yard cock to the hens and chickens. "

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**Who acts:** you, that, yard cock · **What happens:** think, crow, say · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (you, that, yard cock), 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:pg27200:19:26
# text = "What do you think of that crowing?" said the yard cock to the hens and chickens. "
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
3	do	do	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	nsubj	_	_
8	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present · do-support | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 2 | **crow** *in a quote* | gerund | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the yard cock |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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