Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 49

The hen who had lost the loose little feather naturally did not recognise her own story, and being a respectable hen, said: "I despise those fowls; but there are more of that kind.

Who acts: hen, loose little feather, more · What happens: lose, not recognise, be, say, despise · To what, where: loose little feather, own story, respectable hen, fowls · 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, loose little feather, more), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hen	det
2	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 said	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lost	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 hen	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 feather	det
7	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feather	amod
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 feather	amod
9	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
10	naturally	naturally	ADV	_	13 recognise	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 recognise	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 recognise	advmod
13	recognise	recognise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 feather	acl:relcl
14	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 story	nmod:poss
15	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 story	amod
16	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 recognise	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hen	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 hen	cc
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 hen	cop
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 hen	det
21	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 hen	amod
22	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hen	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hen	punct
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 despise	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 despise	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 despise	nsubj
28	despise	despise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
29	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 fowls	det
30	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 despise	obj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 are	punct
32	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 are	cc
33	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	34 are	expl
34	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 are	nsubj
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 kind	case
37	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 kind	det
38	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 more	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	the hen and a respectable hen	the loose little feather			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	not recognise	past · do-support	the loose little feather not said here	hen's own story		naturally property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	is a	gerund	the hen and a respectable hen not said here	a respectable hen			tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	the hen and a respectable hen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	despise in a quote	present	the hen and a respectable hen = hen	that fowls			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fowl=Stimulus
6	be in a quote	present	more		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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