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title: And the cock stood up and flapped his wings three times, crowing “co… — The Brown Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the cock stood up and flapped his wings three times, crowing “coquerico” with a voice like a trumpet, and at each crow there fell from his beak golden drops, and diamonds as large as peas. Who acts: cock, crow. A sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, wi
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# The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 98

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And the cock stood up and flapped his wings three times, crowing “coquerico” with a voice like a trumpet, and at each crow there fell from his beak golden drops, and diamonds as large as peas.

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**Who acts:** cock, crow · **What happens:** stand up, flap, crow, fall · **To what, where:** wings, coquerico, golden drops, beak

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This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cock, crow), 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:pg3282:9:98
# text = And the cock stood up and flapped his wings three times, crowing “coquerico” with a voice like a trumpet, and at each crow there fell from his beak golden drops, and diamonds as large as peas.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	flapped	flap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	crowing	crow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	coquerico	coquerico	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
29	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
33	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	drops	drop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nsubj	_	_
38	as	as	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	peas	pea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | the cock |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flap** | past | the cock *not said here* | lid's wings |  |  | time |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 3 | **crow** | gerund | the cock *not said here* | coquerico |  |  |  | with a voice like a trumpet | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coquerico=Topic |
| 4 | **fall** | past | each crow | golden drops |  | lid's beak |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient drop=Extent from beak=Initial\_State |

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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:** «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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