The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 96

‘Humpty Dumpty fell downstairs and yet married a princess! yes, that is the way of the world!’ thought the tree, and was sure it must be true, because such a nice man had told the story.

Who acts: Humpty, that, world · What happens: fall, marry, be, think, tell · To what, where: princess, way, tree, nice man · 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 (Humpty, that, world), 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	_	4 fell	punct
2	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
3	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Humpty	flat
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 thought	parataxis
5	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 married	cc
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	8 married	advmod
8	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 married	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 married	punct
12	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	8 married	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 way	punct
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 way	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 way	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 way	nmod
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct
23	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tree	det
25	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thought	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sure	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 sure	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 sure	cop
29	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 thought	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 true	nsubj
31	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 true	aux
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 true	cop
33	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sure	ccomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 told	punct
35	because	because	SCONJ	_	41 told	mark
36	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 man	det:predet
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 man	det
38	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 man	amod
39	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 told	nsubj:pass
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 told	aux
41	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 true	parataxis
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 story	det
43	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 told	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 thought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Humpty			downstairs property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	marry	past	Humpty not said here	a princess	yet		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
3	is a	present	that	the way		of the world	tree rules
4	think speech: other	past		the tree			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot tree=Theme
5	is	past				sure property	tree rules
6	is	must	world			true property	tree rules
7	tell speech: assert	past · perfect · passive		such nice man			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient story=Topic

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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