Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Swineherd, sentence 94

And the swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown color from his face, threw off his dirty clothes, and stepped forth in his princely robes; he looked so noble that the Princess could not help bowing before him.

Who acts: swineherd, Princess · What happens: go, wash, throw off, step, look, not help · To what, where: tree, black color, face, dirty clothes, princely robes

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 (swineherd, Princess), 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	_	4 went	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swineherd	det
3	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	behind	behind	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 washed	punct
9	washed	wash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 color	det
11	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 color	amod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 brown	cc
13	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 black	conj
14	color	color	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 washed	obj
15	from	from	ADP	_	17 face	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 face	nmod:poss
17	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 color	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 washed	conj
20	off	off	ADP	_	19 threw	compound:prt
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 clothes	nmod:poss
22	dirty	dirty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 clothes	amod
23	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	19 threw	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 stepped	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stepped	cc
26	stepped	step	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 washed	conj
27	forth	forth	ADV	_	26 stepped	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 robes	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 robes	nmod:poss
30	princely	princely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 robes	amod
31	robes	robe	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stepped	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 looked	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 looked	nsubj
34	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
35	so	so	ADV	_	36 noble	advmod
36	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 looked	xcomp
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 help	mark
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Princess	det
39	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 help	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 help	aux
41	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	42 help	advmod
42	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 noble	advcl
43	bowing	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 help	xcomp
44	before	before	ADP	_	45 him	case
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 bowing	obl
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the swineherd		a tree			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind tree=Location
2	wash	past	the swineherd not said here	the black color	Swineherd's face			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent color=Theme from face=Source
3	throw off	past	the swineherd not said here	Swineherd's dirty clothes				vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme
4	step	past	the swineherd not said here		Swineherd's princely robes		forth property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in robe=Trajectory
5	look	past	Swineherd				noble property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	not help	could	the Princess					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
7	bow not said to happen	gerund	the Princess not said here			before Swineherd		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before he=Location

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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