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title: The poultry yard was divided by some planks from another yard in whi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The poultry yard was divided by some planks from another yard in which there was a dung-hill, and on the dung-hill lay and grew a large cucumber which was conscious of being a hot-bed plant. Who acts: planks, large cucumber. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock, sentence 4

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The poultry yard was divided by some planks from another yard in which there was a dung-hill, and on the dung-hill lay and grew a large cucumber which was conscious of being a hot-bed plant.

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**Who acts:** planks, large cucumber · **What happens:** divide, grow, be · **To what, where:** poultry yard, large cucumber

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Farm-yard Cock and the Weather-cock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (planks, large cucumber), 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:pg27200:19:4
# text = The poultry yard was divided by some planks from another yard in which there was a dung-hill, and on the dung-hill lay and grew a large cucumber which was conscious of being a hot-bed plant.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poultry	poultry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	divided	divide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	planks	plank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	11	det	_	_
11	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
24	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	lay	lay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	cucumber	cucumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
35	conscious	conscious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
37	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	42	cop	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
42	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past · passive | some planks from another yard | the poultry yard |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | some planks from another yard *not said here* | a large cucumber |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cucumber=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | a large cucumber |  |  |  |  | conscious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | of a bed plant | 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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