Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Fir Tree, sentence 89

Then the old man told them the story of Humpty Dumpty, how he fell down stairs, and was raised up again, and married a princess.

Who acts: old man, man · What happens: tell, fall down, raise up, marry · To what, where: story, others, stairs, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (old man, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 story	det
8	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Dumpty	case
10	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Dumpty	compound
11	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 story	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fell	punct
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 fell	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fell	nsubj
15	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
16	down	down	ADP	_	15 fell	compound:prt
17	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fell	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 raised	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 raised	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 raised	aux:pass
21	raised	raise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 told	conj
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 raised	compound:prt
23	again	again	ADV	_	21 raised	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 married	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 married	cc
26	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 princess	det
28	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 married	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the old man	the story of Humpty Dumpty	others = other	then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient story=Topic
2	fall down	past	man	stairs			vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient stair=Result
3	raise up	past · passive	the old man not said here			again	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»
4	marry	past	the old man not said here	a princess			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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