The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 88

‘Henny Penny!’ cried some; ‘Humpty Dumpty!’ cried others; there was a perfect babel of voices!

Who acts: Henny, Humpty Dumpty, perfect babel · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: some, others

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 (Henny, Humpty Dumpty, perfect babel), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Henny	punct
2	Henny	Henny	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 cried	nsubj
3	Penny	Penny	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Henny	flat
4	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Henny	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Henny	punct
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 cried	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 cried	punct
9	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 Dumpty	punct
10	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Dumpty	compound
11	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cried	nsubj
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	11 Dumpty	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 Dumpty	punct
14	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	conj
15	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 cried	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 babel	det
20	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 babel	amod
21	babel	babel	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 was	nsubj
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 voices	case
23	voices	voice	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 babel	nmod
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Henny	some		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic
2	cry speech: express	past	Humpty Dumpty	others		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Topic
3	be	past	a perfect babel of voices		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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