The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 94
They wanted the story of Henny Penny also, but they only got Humpty Dumpty.
Who acts: children · What happens: want, get · To what, where: story, Humpty Dumpty
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 (children), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 wanted | nsubj |
| 2 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wanted | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Penny | case |
| 6 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Penny | compound |
| 7 | Penny | Penny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 story | nmod |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 2 wanted | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 got | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 got | cc |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wanted | conj |
| 14 | Humpty | Humpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Dumpty | compound |
| 15 | Dumpty | Dumpty | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 got | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | past | children = child | the story of Henny Penny | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme | ||||
| 2 | get | past | children = child | Humpty Dumpty | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dumpty=Stimulus |
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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