Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 87
“What is all this?” said he, when he saw what was going on, and he boxed the Princess's ears with his slipper, just as the swineherd was taking the eighty-sixth kiss.
Who acts: this, Emperor, swineherd · What happens: be, say, see, go on, box, take · To what, where: this, ears, sixth kiss · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (this, Emperor, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 this | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 this | cop |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 this | det:predet |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 this | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 saw | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 saw | nsubj |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 going | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 saw | ccomp |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 going | compound:prt |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 boxed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 boxed | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 boxed | nsubj |
| 21 | boxed | box | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Princess | det |
| 23 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 ears | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 Princess | case |
| 25 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 boxed | obj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 slipper | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 slipper | nmod:poss |
| 28 | slipper | slipper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boxed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 taking | punct |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 taking | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 taking | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 swineherd | det |
| 33 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 taking | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 taking | aux |
| 35 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 boxed | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 kiss | det |
| 37 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 sixth | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 eighty | punct |
| 39 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 kiss | amod |
| 40 | kiss | kiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 taking | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | this | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Emperor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | box | past | Emperor | the Princess's ears | with Emperor's slipper | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Co-Agent | |||
| 6 | take | past · progressive | the swineherd | the sixth kiss | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme |
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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