Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 85
Ivede-Avede, or Humpty Dumpty, who fell down stairs, but soon got up again, and at last married a princess."
Who acts: Ivede · What happens: fall down, get up, marry · To what, where: stairs, princess, last
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 (Ivede), 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 | Ivede | Ivede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Avede | punct |
| 3 | Avede | Avede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ivede | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Humpty | punct |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 Humpty | cc |
| 6 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Ivede | appos |
| 7 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Humpty | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 fell | compound:prt |
| 12 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 fell | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 got | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 got | cc |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 got | advmod |
| 16 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 got | compound:prt |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 got | advmod |
| 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 | 10 fell | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 princess | det |
| 25 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 married | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 married | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 married | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | Ivede | stairs | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result | ||||
| 2 | get up | past | Ivede not said here | again | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | marry | past | Ivede not said here | a 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: «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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