Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 247

She has neither a drake father nor a hen mother, and has no descendants."

Who acts: family · What happens: have · To what, where: drake father, descendants

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 (family), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	6 father	cc:preconj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 father	det
5	drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	compound
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 mother	cc
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mother	det
9	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 mother	compound
10	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 father	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 has	cc
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 has	conj
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 descendants	det
15	descendants	descendant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct
17	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	family	a drake father nor a hen mother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient
2	have	present	family not said here	no descendants					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descendant=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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