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title: Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess!” and he thou… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess!” and he thought at the moment of a nice little Birch Tree growing out in the woods: to the Fir, that would be a real charming princess. Who acts: Humpy Dumpy, story, nice Birch Tree, that. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Anderse
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Fir Tree, sentence 171

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Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess!” and he thought at the moment of a nice little Birch Tree growing out in the woods: to the Fir, that would be a real charming princess.

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**Who acts:** Humpy Dumpy, story, nice Birch Tree, that · **What happens:** fall, get, think, grow out, be · **To what, where:** princess, woods, real charming princess

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Fir Tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Humpy Dumpy, story, nice Birch Tree, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg1597:10:171
# text = Humpy-Dumpy fell downstairs, and yet he got a princess!” and he thought at the moment of a nice little Birch Tree growing out in the woods: to the Fir, that would be a real charming princess.
1	Humpy	humpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Dumpy	dumpy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Birch	Birch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
27	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Fir	fir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	43	nsubj	_	_
38	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
39	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	43	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	charming	charming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | Humpy Dumpy |  |  |  |  | downstairs *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | story | a princess |  |  | yet |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer princess=Stimulus |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past | story |  |  |  | moment |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **grow out** *in a quote* | gerund | a nice Birch Tree *not said here* |  |  | the woods |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
| 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | would | that | a real charming princess |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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.

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**Text:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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