Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 255

And Poultry Meg has a good grave, which nobody knew except the old crow, if the old crow is not dead already.

Who acts: Poultry, nobody, old crow · What happens: have, know, not be · To what, where: good grave

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 (Poultry, nobody, old crow), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 has	cc
2	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
3	Meg	Meg	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Poultry	flat
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 grave	det
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grave	amod
7	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 knew	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knew	obj
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 grave	acl:relcl
12	except	except	ADP	_	15 crow	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 crow	det
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 crow	amod
15	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knew	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 dead	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 dead	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crow	det
19	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 crow	amod
20	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 dead	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 dead	cop
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	23 dead	advmod
23	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 knew	advcl
24	already	already	ADV	_	23 dead	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Poultry	a good grave		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Patient
2	know	past	nobody	a good grave	except the old crow	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
3	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	the old crow		dead property	tree rules

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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