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title: Now I have a great opinion of the yard cock on the plank; he is cert… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Now I have a great opinion of the yard cock on the plank; he is certainly of much more importance than the weather-cock who is placed so high and can't even creak, much less crow. Who acts: I, yard. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 8

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Now I have a great opinion of the yard cock on the plank; he is certainly of much more importance than the weather-cock who is placed so high and can't even creak, much less crow.

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**Who acts:** I, yard · **What happens:** have, be, place, not creak, opine · **To what, where:** great opinion, weather cock, less crow, yard cock

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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 (I, yard), 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:pg27200:19:8
# text = Now I have a great opinion of the yard cock on the plank; he is certainly of much more importance than the weather-cock who is placed so high and can't even creak, much less crow.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	plank	plank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
17	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	much	much	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	importance	importance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	weather	weather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
27	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
35	even	even	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	creak	creak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	much	much	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | I | a great opinion of the yard cock on the plank |  |  | now |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | yard |  |  |  |  | of more importance; than the weather cock; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **place** | present · passive |  | the weather cock |  |  |  | high *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **creak** | can |  | less crow |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **opine** |  |  | the yard cock on the plank |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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