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title: There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becomi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becoming to a hen that she plucks out all her feathers and lets the cock see it." Who acts: one, fowls, hen, cock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 23

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There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becoming to a hen that she plucks out all her feathers and lets the cock see it."

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**Who acts:** one, fowls, hen, cock · **What happens:** be, forget, become, pluck out, let, see · **To what, where:** cock, deal

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, fowls, hen, cock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:126:23
# text = There is one among the fowls who has so far forgotten what is becoming to a hen that she plucks out all her feathers and lets the cock see it."
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	forgotten	forget	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	becoming	become	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	plucks	pluck	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	all	all	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	lets	let	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | one among the fowls |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | present · perfect | the fowls |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | present · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | to a hen | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **pluck out** | present | hen |  |  |  |  | all hen's feathers | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **let** | present | hen *not said here* | the cock |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **see** | infinitive | the cock *not said here* | deal |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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