Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 23

There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becoming to a hen that she plucks out all her feathers and lets the cock see it."

Who acts: one, fowls, hen, cock · What happens: be, forget, become, pluck out, let, see · To what, where: cock, deal

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, fowls, hen, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 is	expl
2	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 is	nsubj
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 fowls	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fowls	det
6	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 one	nmod
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 forgotten	nsubj
8	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 forgotten	aux
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 forgotten	advmod
10	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 forgotten	advmod
11	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 fowls	acl:relcl
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 becoming	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 becoming	aux
14	becoming	become	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 forgotten	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 hen	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 hen	det
17	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 becoming	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 plucks	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 plucks	nsubj
20	plucks	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 becoming	advcl
21	out	out	ADP	_	20 plucks	compound:prt
22	all	all	ADP	_	24 feathers	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feathers	nmod:poss
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 plucks	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lets	cc
26	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 plucks	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 cock	det
28	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lets	obj
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 lets	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 see	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	one among the fowls		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	forget	present · perfect	the fowls			far property	tree rules
3	become	present · progressive				to a hen	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	pluck out	present	hen			all hen's feathers	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
5	let	present	hen not said here	the cock			tree rules
6	see	infinitive	the cock not said here	deal			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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.

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