Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 8

The sun was setting, and the fowls were flying on to their roost; one hen, with white feathers and short legs, used to lay her eggs according to the regulations, and was, as a hen, respectable in every way.

Who acts: sun, fowls · What happens: set, fly on, use, lay, accord, be · To what, where: one hen, eggs

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 (sun, fowls), 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 sun	det
2	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 setting	aux
4	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 flying	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flying	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fowls	det
8	fowls	fowl	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 flying	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 flying	aux
10	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 setting	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 flying	compound:prt
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 roost	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 roost	nmod:poss
14	roost	roost	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flying	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 hen	punct
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 hen	nummod
17	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 feathers	punct
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 feathers	case
20	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 feathers	amod
21	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 hen	appos
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 legs	cc
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 legs	amod
24	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feathers	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 used	punct
26	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 feathers	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 lay	mark
28	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 used	advcl
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 eggs	nmod:poss
30	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	obj
31	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 regulations	case
32	to	to	ADP	_	31 according	fixed
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 regulations	det
34	regulations	regulation	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 lay	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hen	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 hen	cc
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 hen	cop
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 hen	punct
39	as	as	ADP	_	41 hen	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 hen	det
41	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 setting	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 respectable	punct
43	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 hen	amod
44	in	in	ADP	_	46 way	case
45	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	46 way	det
46	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 respectable	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 setting	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	set	past · progressive	the sun	one hen		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fly on	past · progressive	the fowls		to fowls's roost result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to roost=Result
3	use	participle	the sun not said here			vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	lay	to-infinitive	the sun not said here	sun's eggs	accord the regulations	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
5	accord	gerund				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
6	is	past			as a hen	tree rules

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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