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title: They wanted the story of Henny Penny also, but they only got Humpty… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: They wanted the story of Henny Penny also, but they only got Humpty Dumpty. Who acts: children. 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 94

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They wanted the story of Henny Penny also, but they only got Humpty Dumpty.

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** want, get · **To what, where:** story, 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 (children), 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:pg5615:11:94
# text = They wanted the story of Henny Penny also, but they only got Humpty Dumpty.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Henny	Henny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Penny	Penny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	Humpty	Humpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Dumpty	Dumpty	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | children *= child* | the story of Henny Penny |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot story=Theme |
| 2 | **get** | past | children *= child* | Humpty Dumpty |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dumpty=Stimulus |

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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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