Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 67

The sitting hens have their own room, and the hens with chickens have theirs; and the ducks have their own particular door leading to the water."

Who acts: sitting hens, hens, ducks · What happens: have, lead · To what, where: own room, chickens, own particular door

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sitting hens, hens, ducks), 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	3 hens	det
2	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hens	compound
3	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 room	nmod:poss
6	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 room	amod
7	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hens	det
11	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 have	nsubj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 chickens	case
13	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hens	nmod
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
15	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 have	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 have	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 have	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 ducks	det
19	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 have	nsubj
20	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 have	conj
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 door	nmod:poss
22	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 door	amod
23	particular	particular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 door	amod
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 have	obj
25	leading	lead	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 have	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leading	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the sitting hens	hens's own room		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient
2	have	present	the hens with chickens	chickens = chicken		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Patient
3	have	present	the ducks	ducks's own particular door		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient
4	lead	gerund	the ducks not said here		to the water	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to water=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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