Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 87
Humpty Dumpty," cried others, and there was a fine shouting and crying out.
Who acts: Humpty, fine shouting · What happens: cry, be, cry out · To what, where: others
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, fine shouting), 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 | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 2 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Humpty | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Humpty | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Humpty | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 was | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 was | cc |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 was | expl |
| 10 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shouting | det |
| 12 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shouting | amod |
| 13 | shouting | shouting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 was | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 crying | cc |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 shouting | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 crying | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | Humpty | others | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Topic | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | past | a fine shouting | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cry out speech: express in a quote | gerund | a fine shouting not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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