Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 8

She often came in the company of grand noble guests, to whom she showed "the hens' and ducks' barracks," as she called the little house.

Who acts: One, hens · What happens: come, show, barrack, call · To what, where: company, little house · Speech: someone speaks here

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, hens), 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	3 came	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 company	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 company	det
6	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 guests	case
8	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 guests	amod
9	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 guests	amod
10	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 company	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 showed	punct
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 whom	case
13	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 showed	obl
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 showed	nsubj
15	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 barracks	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hens	det
18	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 barracks	nsubj
19	'	's	PART	_	18 hens	case
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 barracks	cc
21	ducks	duck	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 barracks	nmod:poss
22	'	's	PART	_	21 ducks	case
23	barracks	barrack	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 showed	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 barracks	punct
25	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 barracks	punct
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 called	mark
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 called	nsubj
28	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 showed	ccomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 house	det
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 house	amod
31	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 called	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	One		the company of grand noble guests	often property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in company=Location
2	show	past	One				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to whom=Recipient clause=Topic
3	barrack in a quote		the hens				tree rules
4	call	past	One	the little house			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient

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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