The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 87
Shall it be Henny Penny or Humpty Dumpty who fell downstairs, and yet gained great honour and married a princess?’
Who acts: you, Henny · What happens: shall, be, gain, marry · To what, where: present, great honour, 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 (you, Henny), 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 | Shall | shall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Shall | obj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fell | cop |
| 4 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Henny | flat |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 Dumpty | cc |
| 7 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Dumpty | compound |
| 8 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Henny | conj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Shall | advcl |
| 11 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 10 fell | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 gained | cc |
| 14 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 15 gained | advmod |
| 15 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 honour | amod |
| 17 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gained | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 married | cc |
| 19 | married | marry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fell | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 princess | det |
| 21 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 married | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shall | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shall | imperative | you not said here | present | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | Henny or Humpty Dumpty | downstairs, fall property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | gain | past | Henny or Humpty Dumpty not said here | great honour | yet | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme | |||
| 4 | marry | past | Henny or Humpty Dumpty 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: «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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