--- title: The hen who had lost the loose little feather naturally did not reco… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The hen who had lost the loose little feather naturally did not recognise her own story, and being a respectable hen, said: "I despise those fowls; but there are more of that kind. Who acts: hen, loose little feather, more. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Th --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/49/) [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/) / 49 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, There Is No Doubt About It, sentence 49 The hen who had lost the loose little feather naturally did not recognise her own story, and being a respectable hen, said: "I despise those fowls; but there are more of that kind. **Who acts:** hen, loose little feather, more · **What happens:** lose, not recognise, be, say, despise · **To what, where:** loose little feather, own story, respectable hen, fowls · **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, loose little feather, more), 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:pg27200:126:49 # text = The hen who had lost the loose little feather naturally did not recognise her own story, and being a respectable hen, said: "I despise those fowls; but there are more of that kind. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 3 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 4 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 lost lose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 loose loose ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 8 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 naturally naturally ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 11 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 13 advmod _ _ 13 recognise recognise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 acl:relcl _ _ 14 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 19 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 22 cop _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 respectable respectable ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 hen hen NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 24 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 25 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 26 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 despise despise VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 29 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 fowls fowl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 32 but but CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 34 expl _ _ 34 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 ccomp _ _ 35 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 34 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 38 det _ _ 38 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 24 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lose** | past · perfect | the hen and a respectable hen | the loose little feather | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality | | 2 | **not** **recognise** | past · do-support | the loose little feather *not said here* | hen's own story | | | | naturally *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | | 3 | **is a** | gerund | the hen and a respectable hen *not said here* | a respectable hen | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the hen and a respectable hen | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **despise** *in a quote* | present | the hen and a respectable hen *= hen* | that fowls | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fowl=Stimulus | | 6 | **be** *in a quote* | present | more | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/48/) - next →: [sentence 50](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/50/) - ↑ back to [There Is No Doubt About It](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/126/)