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title: To-morrow I shall hear Humpty Dumpty again, and perhaps Henny Penny… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: To-morrow I shall hear Humpty Dumpty again, and perhaps Henny Penny too.’ Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 102

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To-morrow I shall hear Humpty Dumpty again, and perhaps Henny Penny too.’

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** hear · **To what, where:** Humpty Dumpty

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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 (I), 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:pg5615:11:102
# text = To-morrow I shall hear Humpty Dumpty again, and perhaps Henny Penny too.’
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | shall | I | Humpty Dumpty |  |  | again | to morrow | 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:** «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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