Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 39

There is a hen--nay, some say that there are two--who have plucked out all their feathers, in order not to look like the others, and to attract the attention of the cock.

Who acts: hen, some, two, cock · What happens: be, say, pluck out, not look, attract, attend · To what, where: feathers, order, attention · Speech: someone speaks here

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, some, two, 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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hen	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 is	nsubj
5	--	--	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct
6	nay	nay	INTJ	_	9 say	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nay	punct
8	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 say	nsubj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 is	parataxis
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 are	mark
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 are	expl
12	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 are	nsubj
14	--	--	PUNCT	_	17 plucked	punct
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 plucked	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 plucked	aux
17	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 two	conj
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 plucked	compound:prt
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 feathers	det:predet
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feathers	nmod:poss
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 plucked	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 order	punct
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 order	case
24	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 plucked	obl
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 look	advmod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 look	mark
27	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 plucked	advcl
28	like	like	ADP	_	30 others	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 others	det
30	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 look	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 attract	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 attract	cc
33	to	to	PART	_	34 attract	mark
34	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 look	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 attention	det
36	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 attract	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 cock	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 cock	det
39	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 attention	nmod
40	.	.	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	say speech: assert	present	some				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	be	present	two		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pluck out	present · perfect		doves's feathers	order		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
5	not look	to-infinitive				like the others	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
6	attract	to-infinitive		the attention of the cock			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient
7	attend		the cock				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent

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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