--- title: "Five hens," it now ran, "have plucked out all their feathers to sho… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: "Five hens," it now ran, "have plucked out all their feathers to show which of them had grown leanest for love of the cock, and then they all pecked at each other till the blood ran down and they fell down dead, to the derision and shame of their family, and to the great loss of their owner." 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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 (Five hens, blood, feathers), 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:pg27200:126:48 # text = "Five hens," it now ran, "have plucked out all their feathers to show which of them had grown leanest for love of the cock, and then they all pecked at each other till the blood ran down and they fell down dead, to the derision and shame of their family, and to the great loss of their owner." 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 3 hens hen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 7 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 8 advmod _ _ 8 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 12 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 aux _ _ 12 plucked pluck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 parataxis _ _ 13 out out ADP RP _ 12 compound:prt _ _ 14 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 16 det:predet _ _ 15 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 feathers feather NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 show show VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 advcl _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 22 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 18 ccomp _ _ 24 leanest lean ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 xcomp _ _ 25 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 cock cock NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 35 advmod _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 pecked peck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 conj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 35 obl _ _ 38 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 fixed _ _ 39 till till SCONJ IN _ 42 mark _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 43 down down ADP RP _ 42 compound:prt _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 conj _ _ 47 down down ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 46 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 to to ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 52 det _ _ 52 derision derision NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 54 shame shame NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 conj _ _ 55 of of ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 57 nmod:poss _ _ 57 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 63 punct _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 63 cc _ _ 60 to to ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 62 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 63 amod _ _ 63 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 65 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 66 nmod:poss _ _ 66 owner owner NOUN NN Number=Sing 63 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 67 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 68 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | past | Five hens | | | | now | to the great loss of feathers's owner | tree rules | | 2 | **pluck out** *in a quote* | present · perfect | | eyes's feathers | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient | | 3 | **show** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **grow** *in a quote* | past · perfect | | | | | | of feathers *= feather*; for love of the cock; lean *property* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Product for love=Beneficiary | | 5 | **peck** *in a quote* | participle · passive | | feathers *= feather* | | each | then | | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient at each=Location | | 6 | **run down** *in a quote* | past | the blood | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **fall down** *in a quote* | past | feathers *= feather* | | | | | to the derision and shame of feathers's family; dead *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to derision=Theme | | 8 | **love** *in a quote* | | | the cock | | | | | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 9 | **shame** *in a quote* | | | feathers's family | | | | | nom shame «feeling transitive»: of=patient | 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 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/49/) - ↑ back to [There Is No Doubt About It](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/)