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title: The fowl will lay eggs and hatch them, and we shall have chickens; w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The fowl will lay eggs and hatch them, and we shall have chickens; we shall soon have a poultry-yard. Who acts: fowl, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right, sentence 117

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The fowl will lay eggs and hatch them, and we shall have chickens; we shall soon have a poultry-yard.

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**Who acts:** fowl, we · **What happens:** lay, hatch, have · **To what, where:** eggs, chickens, poultry yard

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, What the Old Man Does Is Always Right. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fowl, we), 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:pg27200:132:117
# text = The fowl will lay eggs and hatch them, and we shall have chickens; we shall soon have a poultry-yard.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	hatch	hatch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
14	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | future | the fowl | eggs |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
| 2 | **hatch** | present | the fowl *not said here* | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Product |
| 3 | **have** | shall | we | chickens |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chicken=Patient |
| 4 | **have** | shall | we | a poultry yard |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yard=Patient |

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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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