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title: And Poultry Meg has a good grave, which nobody knew except the old c… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And Poultry Meg has a good grave, which nobody knew except the old crow, if the old crow is not dead already. Who acts: Poultry, nobody, old crow. 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 clau
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 255

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And Poultry Meg has a good grave, which nobody knew except the old crow, if the old crow is not dead already.

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**Who acts:** Poultry, nobody, old crow · **What happens:** have, know, not be · **To what, where:** good grave

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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, nobody, old crow), 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:pg27200:149:255
# text = And Poultry Meg has a good grave, which nobody knew except the old crow, if the old crow is not dead already.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Meg	Meg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obj	_	_
10	nobody	nobody	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
11	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	except	except	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	advcl	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | Poultry | a good grave |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | past | nobody | a good grave |  |  |  | except the old crow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |
| 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | the old crow |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |

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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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