--- title: There is a hen--nay, some say that there are two--who have plucked o… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: There is a hen--nay, some say that there are two--who have plucked out all their feathers, in order not to look like the others, and to attract the attention of the cock. Who acts: hen, some, two, cock. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, There Is No Doubt About --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/39/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [There Is No Doubt About It](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/) / 39 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 39 There is a hen--nay, some say that there are two--who have plucked out all their feathers, in order not to look like the others, and to attract the attention of the cock. **Who acts:** hen, some, two, cock · **What happens:** be, say, pluck out, not look, attract, attend · **To what, where:** feathers, order, attention · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, some, two, cock), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:126:39 # text = There is a hen--nay, some say that there are two--who have plucked out all their feathers, in order not to look like the others, and to attract the attention of the cock. 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 _ SpaceAfter=No 5 -- -- PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 nay nay INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 10 that that SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 12 expl _ _ 12 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 13 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 -- -- PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 16 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 aux _ _ 17 plucked pluck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 21 det:predet _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 25 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 advcl _ _ 28 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 attract attract VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | 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 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | some | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **be** | present | two | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pluck out** | present · perfect | | doves's feathers | | order | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | | 5 | **not** **look** | to-infinitive | | | | | | like the others | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **attract** | to-infinitive | | the attention of the cock | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | | 7 | **attend** | | the cock | | | | | | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: of=agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/38/) - next →: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/40/) - ↑ back to [There Is No Doubt About It](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/)