Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 161

A white hen, who had a brood of chickens, was fastened to the bench, and had overturned the pipkin of water, so that the wet ran across the floor.

Who acts: white hen · What happens: have, fasten, overturn, run · To what, where: brood, white hen, pipkin, floor

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (white hen), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hen	det
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 hen	amod
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fastened	nsubj:pass
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hen	acl:relcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 brood	det
8	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 chickens	case
10	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 brood	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 hen	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fastened	aux:pass
13	fastened	fasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 bench	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bench	det
16	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fastened	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 overturned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 overturned	cc
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 overturned	aux
20	overturned	overturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 fastened	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pipkin	det
22	pipkin	pipkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 overturned	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pipkin	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wet	punct
26	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	29 wet	mark
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 so	fixed
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 wet	det
29	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ran	advcl
30	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 overturned	parataxis
31	across	across	ADP	_	33 floor	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 floor	det
33	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 ran	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a white hen	a brood of chickens			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Patient
2	fasten	past · passive		a white hen		to the bench	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient to bench=Co-Patient
3	overturn	past · perfect		the pipkin of water			tree rules
4	run	past			the floor		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across floor=Trajectory

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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