Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 5

One heard the screaming into the poultry-house, where Poultry Meg sat with the ducklings running to and fro over her wooden shoes.

Who acts: One, Poultry, ducklings · What happens: hear, scream, sit, run · To what, where: screaming poultry house

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 (One, Poultry, ducklings), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
4	screaming	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 house	amod
5	into	into	ADP	_	9 house	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 house	det
7	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 poultry	punct
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heard	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sat	punct
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 sat	advmod
12	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 sat	nsubj
13	Meg	Meg	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Poultry	flat
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 house	advcl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 ducklings	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ducklings	det
17	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	obl
18	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 ducklings	acl
19	to	to	ADP	_	18 running	fixed
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 shoes	cc
21	fro	fro	ADV	_	25 shoes	advmod
22	over	over	ADP	_	25 shoes	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoes	nmod:poss
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 shoes	amod
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 ducklings	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	One	the screaming poultry house		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus
2	scream speech: express	gerund				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	sit	past	Poultry		with the ducklings and Poultry's wooden shoes	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	run	gerund	the ducklings and Poultry's wooden shoes not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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