Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 9

The latter has neither hens nor chicks, and only thinks of himself and perspires verdigris.

Who acts: latter · What happens: have, think, perspire · To what, where: hens, verdigris

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (latter), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 latter	det
2	latter	latter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	5 hens	det
5	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	7 chicks	cc
7	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hens	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 thinks	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 thinks	cc
10	only	only	ADV	_	11 thinks	advmod
11	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 himself	case
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 thinks	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 perspires	cc
15	perspires	perspire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 thinks	conj
16	verdigris	verdigris	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 perspires	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	the latter	neither hens nor chicks		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient
2	think speech: other	present			of yard	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	perspire	present		verdigris		vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verdigris=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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