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title: Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwellin… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and ducks belonging to the manor house. Who acts: Poultry, only person, ducks. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 1

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Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and ducks belonging to the manor house.

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**Who acts:** Poultry, only person, ducks · **What happens:** be, live, build, belong · **To what, where:** only person, new stately dwelling

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poultry, only person, 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:pg27200:149:1
# text = Poultry Meg was the only person who lived in the new stately dwelling that had been built for the fowls and ducks belonging to the manor house.
1	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	Meg	Meg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fowls	fowl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	ducks	duck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	belonging	belong	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	manor	manor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Poultry | the only person |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | past | the only person |  |  | the new stately dwelling |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dwelling=Location |
| 3 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | the new stately dwelling |  |  |  | for the fowls and ducks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: subject=Product for fowl=Asset |
| 4 | **belong** | gerund | ducks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the manor house | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |

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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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