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title: ‘Henny Penny!’ cried some; ‘Humpty Dumpty!’ cried others; there was… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Henny Penny!’ cried some; ‘Humpty Dumpty!’ cried others; there was a perfect babel of voices! Who acts: Henny, Humpty Dumpty, perfect babel. 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 88

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‘Henny Penny!’ cried some; ‘Humpty Dumpty!’ cried others; there was a perfect babel of voices!

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**Who acts:** Henny, Humpty Dumpty, perfect babel · **What happens:** cry, be · **To what, where:** some, others

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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 (Henny, Humpty Dumpty, perfect babel), 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:pg5615:11:88
# text = ‘Henny Penny!’ cried some; ‘Humpty Dumpty!’ cried others; there was a perfect babel of voices!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	18	expl	_	_
18	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	babel	babel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Henny | some |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Topic |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Humpty Dumpty | others |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Topic |
| 3 | **be** | past | a perfect babel of voices |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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