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title: One heard the screaming into the poultry-house, where Poultry Meg sa… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: One heard the screaming into the poultry-house, where Poultry Meg sat with the ducklings running to and fro over her wooden shoes. Who acts: One, Poultry, ducklings. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Poultry Meg's Family, sentence 5

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One heard the screaming into the poultry-house, where Poultry Meg sat with the ducklings running to and fro over her wooden shoes.

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**Who acts:** One, Poultry, ducklings · **What happens:** hear, scream, sit, run · **To what, where:** screaming poultry house

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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 (One, Poultry, ducklings), 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:pg27200:149:5
# text = One heard the screaming into the poultry-house, where Poultry Meg sat with the ducklings running to and fro over her wooden shoes.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
12	Poultry	Poultry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Meg	Meg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ducklings	duckling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	fixed	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	fro	fro	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	shoes	shoe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | One | the screaming poultry house |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus |
| 2 | **scream** *speech: express* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **sit** | past | Poultry |  |  |  |  | with the ducklings and Poultry's wooden shoes | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** | gerund | the ducklings and Poultry's wooden shoes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: 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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