Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 48

"Five hens," it now ran, "have plucked out all their feathers to show which of them had grown leanest for love of the cock, and then they all pecked at each other till the blood ran down and they fell down dead, to the derision and shame of their family, and to the great loss of their owner."

Who acts: Five hens, blood, feathers · What happens: run, pluck out, show, grow, peck, run down · To what, where: feathers, each, cock, family · 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 (Five hens, blood, feathers), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 hens	punct
2	Five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hens	nummod
3	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ran	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hens	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 ran	advmod
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plucked	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 plucked	punct
11	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 plucked	aux
12	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 ran	parataxis
13	out	out	ADP	_	12 plucked	compound:prt
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 feathers	det:predet
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 feathers	nmod:poss
16	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plucked	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 show	mark
18	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plucked	advcl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 grown	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grown	obl
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 grown	aux
23	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 show	ccomp
24	leanest	lean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 grown	xcomp
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 love	case
26	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 grown	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 cock	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 cock	det
29	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 love	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 pecked	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 pecked	cc
32	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	35 pecked	advmod
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pecked	nsubj
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 pecked	nsubj:pass
35	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 ran	conj
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 each	case
37	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	35 pecked	obl
38	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 each	fixed
39	till	till	SCONJ	_	42 ran	mark
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 blood	det
41	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ran	nsubj
42	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 pecked	advcl
43	down	down	ADP	_	42 ran	compound:prt
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fell	cc
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 fell	nsubj
46	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 ran	conj
47	down	down	ADV	_	48 dead	advmod
48	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 fell	xcomp
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 derision	punct
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 derision	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 derision	det
52	derision	derision	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 fell	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 shame	cc
54	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 derision	conj
55	of	of	ADP	_	57 family	case
56	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 family	nmod:poss
57	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 shame	nmod
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	63 loss	punct
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 loss	cc
60	to	to	ADP	_	63 loss	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 loss	det
62	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	63 loss	amod
63	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ran	obl
64	of	of	ADP	_	66 owner	case
65	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 owner	nmod:poss
66	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 loss	nmod
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct
68	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	Five hens			now	to the great loss of feathers's owner	tree rules
2	pluck out in a quote	present · perfect		eyes's feathers				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
3	show in a quote	to-infinitive						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	grow in a quote	past · perfect					of feathers = feather; for love of the cock; lean property	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Product for love=Beneficiary
5	peck in a quote	participle · passive		feathers = feather	each	then		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient at each=Location
6	run down in a quote	past	the blood					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fall down in a quote	past	feathers = feather				to the derision and shame of feathers's family; dead property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to derision=Theme
8	love in a quote			the cock				nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient
9	shame in a quote			feathers's family				nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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