The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 144
Humpty dumpty fell downstairs, and yet he married a princess; perhaps I shall also marry a princess!’
Who acts: Humpty dumpty, Dumpty, I · What happens: fall, marry · To what, where: princess
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humpty dumpty, Dumpty, 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dumpty | amod |
| 2 | dumpty | dumpty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 married | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 married | cc |
| 7 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 married | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 married | nsubj |
| 9 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 married | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 13 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 17 marry | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 marry | nsubj |
| 15 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 marry | aux |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 17 marry | advmod |
| 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 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 17 marry | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Humpty dumpty | downstairs property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | marry | past | Dumpty | a princess | yet | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient | |||
| 3 | marry | shall | 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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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