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title: The sitting hens have their own room, and the hens with chickens hav… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The sitting hens have their own room, and the hens with chickens have theirs; and the ducks have their own particular door leading to the water." Who acts: sitting hens, hens, ducks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, with its dependen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2, sentence 67

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The sitting hens have their own room, and the hens with chickens have theirs; and the ducks have their own particular door leading to the water."

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**Who acts:** sitting hens, hens, ducks · **What happens:** have, lead · **To what, where:** own room, chickens, own particular door

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Porter's Son, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sitting hens, hens, ducks), 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:pg27200:147:67
# text = The sitting hens have their own room, and the hens with chickens have theirs; and the ducks have their own particular door leading to the water."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sitting	sitting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hens	hen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	chickens	chicken	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
22	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the sitting hens | hens's own room |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | present | the hens with chickens | chickens *= chicken* |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent their=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | present | the ducks | ducks's own particular door |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 4 | **lead** | gerund | the ducks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the water | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to water=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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