--- title: And hens and chicks clucked and chirped, and the cock announced a gr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: And hens and chicks clucked and chirped, and the cock announced a great piece of news. Who acts: hens, 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/33/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/) / 33 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 33 And hens and chicks clucked and chirped, and the cock announced a great piece of news. **Who acts:** hens, cock · **What happens:** cluck, chirp, announce · **To what, where:** great piece 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 (hens, 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:pg27200:19:33 # text = And hens and chicks clucked and chirped, and the cock announced a great piece of news. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 chicks chick NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 conj _ _ 5 clucked cluck VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 chirped chirp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 announced announce VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 news news NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cluck** | past | hens and chicks | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **chirp** | past | hens and chicks *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **announce** *speech: other* | past | the cock | a great piece of news | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | 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 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/32/) - next →: [sentence 34](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/34/) - ↑ back to [The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/19/)