Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 118
“Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he married the princess!
Who acts: Humpy Dumpy, Tree · What happens: fall, marry · To what, where: princess
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 (Humpy Dumpy, Tree), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
| 2 | Humpy | humpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Dumpy | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Humpy | punct |
| 4 | Dumpy | dumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 5 fell | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 married | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 married | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 married | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 married | nsubj |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall in a quote | past | Humpy Dumpy | downstairs property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry in a quote | past | Tree | the princess | yet | 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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