--- title: "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" he crowed, "the chickens will grow up into grea… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" he crowed, "the chickens will grow up into great hens at once, if I cry it out in the poultry-yard of the world!" Who acts: Cock, hill, chickens. 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 (Cock, hill, chickens), 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:pg27200:19:32 # text = "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" he crowed, "the chickens will grow up into great hens at once, if I cry it out in the poultry-yard of the world!" 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 doodle doodle NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 doo doo NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 crowed crow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 chickens chicken NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 ccomp _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 if if SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 cry cry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 33 poultry poultry NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 yard yard NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 ! ! PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 " " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **doo** *in a quote* | | Cock | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **crow** | past | hill | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **grow up** *in a quote* | future | the chickens | | | | | into great hens | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Location | | 4 | **cry out** *speech: express* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | hill | doo | | | | in the poultry yard of the world | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/33/) - ↑ back to [The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/)