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title: There is a hen who has plucked out all her feathers for the sake of… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: There is a hen who has plucked out all her feathers for the sake of the cock; she will freeze to death, if she is not frozen already. Who acts: hen. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 32

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There is a hen who has plucked out all her feathers for the sake of the cock; she will freeze to death, if she is not frozen already.

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**Who acts:** hen · **What happens:** be, pluck out, freeze, not freeze · **To what, where:** hen

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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 (hen), 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:pg27200:126:32
# text = There is a hen who has plucked out all her feathers for the sake of the cock; she will freeze to death, if she is not frozen already.
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	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	plucked	pluck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	all	all	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	freeze	freeze	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	29	advmod	_	_
29	frozen	freeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
30	already	already	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present | a hen |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pluck out** | present · perfect | a hen |  |  |  |  | all hen's feathers; for the sake of the cock | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for sake=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **freeze** | future | hen |  |  |  |  | to death | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **freeze** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive |  | hen |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result |

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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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