Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 112

And the man told about Humpy-Dumpy that tumbled down, who notwithstanding came to the throne, and at last married the princess.

Who acts: man, Humpy Dumpy · What happens: tell, tumble down, notwithstand, come, marry · To what, where: throne, princess, last · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Humpy Dumpy), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 tumbled	mark
6	Humpy	humpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Dumpy	amod
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Humpy	punct
8	Dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tumbled	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tumbled	nsubj
10	tumbled	tumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
11	down	down	ADP	_	10 tumbled	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 came	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 came	nsubj
14	notwithstanding	notwithstand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 tumbled	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 throne	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 throne	det
18	throne	throne	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 married	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 married	cc
21	at	at	ADP	_	22 last	case
22	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 married	obl
23	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 married	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	tumble down	past	Humpy Dumpy			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	notwithstand	gerund				tree rules
4	come	past			the throne	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial_Location
5	marry	past	the man not said here	the princess	last	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=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: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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