Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home, sentence 24

The hens were hopping about the floor; one of them had no tail; a traveller, who fancied himself a sportsman, had shot off her tail, he had mistaken her for a bird of prey.

Who acts: hens, one, traveller, Rudy · What happens: hop, have, fancy, shoot off, mistake · To what, where: tail, Rudy, Ajola

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, II. the Journey to the New Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hens, one, traveller, Rudy), 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 hens	det
2	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hopping	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hopping	aux
4	hopping	hop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 floor	det
7	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hopping	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 had	nsubj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hopping	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 tail	det
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 traveller	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 traveller	det
17	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fancied	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 fancied	nsubj
20	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 traveller	acl:relcl
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 fancied	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sportsman	det
23	sportsman	sportsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fancied	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 shot	punct
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 shot	aux
26	shot	shoot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 fancied	parataxis
27	off	off	ADP	_	29 tail	case
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 tail	nmod:poss
29	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 shot	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 mistaken	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 mistaken	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 mistaken	aux
33	mistaken	mistake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 shot	conj
34	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 mistaken	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 bird	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 bird	det
37	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 mistaken	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 prey	case
39	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bird	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hopping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hop	past · progressive	the hens		about the floor	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about floor=Trajectory
2	have	past	one of hens	no tail		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
3	fancy	past	a traveller	Rudy		tree rules
4	shoot off	past · perfect		Ajola's tail		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
5	mistake	past · perfect	Rudy	Ajola	for a bird of prey	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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