--- title: Cluck, cluck, cluck," cried a hen as she crept towards him. " — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Cluck, cluck, cluck," cried a hen as she crept towards him. " Who acts: Cluck. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk, 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/pg27200/80/15/) [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/) / [Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/) / 15 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tuk, sentence 15 Cluck, cluck, cluck," cried a hen as she crept towards him. " **Who acts:** Cluck · **What happens:** cluck, cry, creep · **To what, where:** hen This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tuk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cluck), 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:pg27200:80:15 # text = Cluck, cluck, cluck," cried a hen as she crept towards him. " 1 Cluck cluck NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 cluck cluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 cluck cluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obj _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 14 towards towards ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cluck** | infinitive | Cluck | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **cluck** | infinitive | Cluck *not said here* | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cry** *speech: express* *in a quote* | past | Cluck *not said here* | a hen | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Topic | | 4 | **creep** *in a quote* | past | Cluck | | | | | towards Tuk | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination | 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 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/16/) - ↑ back to [Little Tuk](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/80/)