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title: Sleep was still in his eyes, but yet he crowed out: "Three hens have… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Sleep was still in his eyes, but yet he crowed out: "Three hens have died of their unfortunate love for a cock. Who acts: Sleep, neighbour, Three hens, eyes. 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 pragmat
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 42

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Sleep was still in his eyes, but yet he crowed out: "Three hens have died of their unfortunate love for a cock.

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**Who acts:** Sleep, neighbour, Three hens, eyes · **What happens:** be, crow out, die, love · **To what, where:** eyes

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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 (Sleep, neighbour, Three hens, eyes), 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:pg27200:126:42
# text = Sleep was still in his eyes, but yet he crowed out: "Three hens have died of their unfortunate love for a cock.
1	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	crowed	crow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	out	out	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cock	cock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Sleep |  |  | neighbour's eyes | still |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **crow out** | past | neighbour | neighbour's eyes *not said here* |  |  | yet |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic |
| 3 | **die** *in a quote* | present · perfect | Three hens |  |  |  |  | of eyes's unfortunate love for a cock | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of love=Causer |
| 4 | **love** *in a quote* |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  | for a cock | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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