Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 32

There is a hen who has plucked out all her feathers for the sake of the cock; she will freeze to death, if she is not frozen already.

Who acts: hen · What happens: be, pluck out, freeze, not freeze · To what, where: hen

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 (hen), 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 plucked	nsubj
6	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 plucked	aux
7	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 hen	acl:relcl
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 plucked	compound:prt
9	all	all	ADP	_	11 feathers	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 feathers	nmod:poss
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 plucked	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sake	det
14	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plucked	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 cock	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 cock	det
17	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sake	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 freeze	punct
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 freeze	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 freeze	aux
21	freeze	freeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 is	parataxis
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 death	case
23	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 freeze	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 frozen	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	29 frozen	mark
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 frozen	nsubj
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 frozen	aux:pass
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 frozen	advmod
29	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 freeze	advcl
30	already	already	ADV	_	29 frozen	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	a hen		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pluck out	present · perfect	a hen			all hen's feathers; for the sake of the cock	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sake=Beneficiary
3	freeze	future	hen			to death	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	not freeze a condition, not said to happen	present · passive		hen			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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