Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 123
Humpty Dumpty fell down stairs, and yet he married the princess; perhaps I may marry a princess too."
Who acts: Humpty, I · What happens: fall down, marry · To what, where: stairs, princess
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (Humpty, I), 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 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Humpty | flat |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 fell | compound:prt |
| 5 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fell | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 married | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 married | cc |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 married | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 married | nsubj |
| 10 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 princess | det |
| 12 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 married | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 14 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 marry | advmod |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | aux |
| 17 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fell | parataxis |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 princess | det |
| 19 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 marry | obj |
| 20 | too | too | ADV | _ | 17 marry | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 22 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | Humpty | stairs | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | Humpty | the princess | yet | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 3 | marry | may | I | a princess | perhaps property | 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: «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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