Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 85
We need not for that forget Poultry Meg, who is sitting in her capital hen-house, in our own time.
Who acts: We, that, Poultry · What happens: not need, forget, sit · To what, where: Poultry, capital hen 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 (We, that, Poultry), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 need | nsubj |
| 2 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 need | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 forget | mark |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 forget | nsubj |
| 6 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 need | advcl |
| 7 | Poultry | Poultry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 forget | obj |
| 8 | Meg | Meg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Poultry | flat |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sitting | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 sitting | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 sitting | aux |
| 12 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 Poultry | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 16 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 hen | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 time | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 time | case |
| 21 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 time | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 time | amod |
| 23 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sitting | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not need | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | forget | present | that | Poultry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sit | present · progressive | Poultry | Poultry's capital hen house | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
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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