--- title: The man is in custody for a crime, and that's why she manages the fe… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The man is in custody for a crime, and that's why she manages the ferry-boat herself--she has fists of her own." Who acts: man, custody, captain. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/158/) [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/) / [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/) / 158 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 158 The man is in custody for a crime, and that's why she manages the ferry-boat herself--she has fists of her own." **Who acts:** man, custody, captain · **What happens:** be, manage, have · **To what, where:** custody, ferry boat, fists 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 (man, custody, captain), 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:pg27200:149:158 # text = The man is in custody for a crime, and that's why she manages the ferry-boat herself--she has fists of her own." 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 custody custody NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 for for ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 crime crime NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 11 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 cop _ _ 13 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 acl:relcl _ _ 14 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 manages manage VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl:relcl _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 ferry ferry NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 boat boat NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 20 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 24 fists fist NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 28 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the man | | | custody | | for a crime | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | present | custody | custody *not said here* | | | | why *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **manage** | present | captain | the ferry boat | | | | captain *obl* | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boat=Theme | | 4 | **have** | present | captain | fists of captain's own | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fist=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 157](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/157/) - next →: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/159/) - ↑ back to [Poultry Meg's Family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/149/)