The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 92

And the man told them about Humpty Dumpty who fell downstairs and married a princess.

Who acts: man · What happens: tell, fall, marry · To what, where: others, princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 Dumpty	case
7	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Dumpty	compound
8	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 fell	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 fell	nsubj
10	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	ccomp
11	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	10 fell	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 married	cc
13	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fell	conj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 princess	det
15	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 married	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the man		others = other		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fall	past				about Humpty Dumpty; downstairs property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme about dumpty=Location
3	marry	past		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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