Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 117

The fowl will lay eggs and hatch them, and we shall have chickens; we shall soon have a poultry-yard.

Who acts: fowl, we · What happens: lay, hatch, have · To what, where: eggs, chickens, poultry yard

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowl, we), 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 fowl	det
2	fowl	fowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	aux
4	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lay	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 hatch	cc
7	hatch	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 hatch	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 have	cc
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
12	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	aux
13	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	conj
14	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
16	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 have	nsubj
17	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 have	aux
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 have	advmod
19	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lay	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 yard	det
21	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 yard	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 poultry	punct
23	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 have	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	lay	future	the fowl	eggs		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
2	hatch	present	the fowl not said here	eggs = egg		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	have	shall	we	chickens		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient
4	have	shall	we	a poultry yard	soon property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=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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