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title: Shall it be Henny Penny or Humpty Dumpty who fell downstairs, and ye… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Shall it be Henny Penny or Humpty Dumpty who fell downstairs, and yet gained great honour and married a princess?’ Who acts: you, Henny. 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 87

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Shall it be Henny Penny or Humpty Dumpty who fell downstairs, and yet gained great honour and married a princess?’

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**Who acts:** you, Henny · **What happens:** shall, be, gain, marry · **To what, where:** present, great honour, princess

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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 (you, Henny), 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:pg5615:11:87
# text = Shall it be Henny Penny or Humpty Dumpty who fell downstairs, and yet gained great honour and married a princess?’
1	Shall	shall	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
4	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
11	downstairs	downstairs	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	married	marry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shall** | imperative | you *not said here* | present |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | infinitive | Henny or Humpty Dumpty |  |  |  |  | downstairs, fall *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | past | Henny or Humpty Dumpty *not said here* | great honour |  |  | yet |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=Theme |
| 4 | **marry** | past | Henny or Humpty Dumpty *not said here* | a princess |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient |

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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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