Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 60

And the court-ladies placed themselves in front of her, and spread out their dresses--the swineherd got ten kisses, and the Princess--the kitchen-pot.

Who acts: court ladies, swineherd · What happens: place, spread out, get · To what, where: ladies, front, dresses, ten kisses

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

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 placed	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladies	det
3	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladies	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 court	punct
5	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 placed	nsubj
6	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 placed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 front	case
9	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 front	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 spread	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 spread	cc
14	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 spread	compound:prt
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 dresses	nmod:poss
17	dresses	dress	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spread	obj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 swineherd	det
20	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 got	nsubj
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 placed	conj
22	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 kisses	nummod
23	kisses	kiss	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 got	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Princess	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 Princess	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Princess	det
27	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 placed	obl
28	--	--	PUNCT	_	32 pot	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pot	det
30	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pot	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 kitchen	punct
32	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Princess	appos
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	place	past	the court ladies	ladies = lady	front of lieber	the Princess obl	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in front=Destination
2	spread out	past	the court ladies not said here	ladies's dresses			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme
3	get	past	the swineherd	ten kisses			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kiss=Stimulus

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.

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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