Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Portuguese Duck, sentence 42

There are two Cochin Chinese amongst them; they wear feathers on their legs, and are well educated.

Who acts: two Cochin Chinese, fowls · What happens: be, wear, educate · To what, where: feathers, legs

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Portuguese Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two Cochin Chinese, 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 Chinese	nummod
4	Cochin	Cochin	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Chinese	compound
5	Chinese	Chinese	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 are	nsubj
6	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	7 them	case
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 are	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 wear	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wear	nsubj
10	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 are	conj
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 wear	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 legs	case
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 legs	nmod:poss
14	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feathers	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 educated	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 educated	cc
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 educated	aux:pass
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 educated	advmod
19	educated	educate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 wear	advcl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	present	two Cochin Chinese		there	amongst fowls = fowl	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme amongst they=Location
2	wear	present	fowls = fowl	feathers	fowls's legs		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Source
3	educate speech: other	present · passive	fowls = fowl not said here			well property	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»

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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