Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 29
Thus the prince was appointed imperial swineherd, and as such he lived in a wretchedly small room near the pigsty; there he worked all day long, and when it was night he had made a pretty little pot.
Who acts: many, swineherd · What happens: appoint, live, work, be, make · To what, where: prince, wretchedly small room, night
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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 (many, 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 appointed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | aux:pass |
| 5 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 swineherd | amod |
| 7 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 appointed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 such | case |
| 11 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lived | obl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 16 | wretchedly | wretchedly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 room | amod |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lived | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADP | _ | 21 pigsty | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pigsty | det |
| 21 | pigsty | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 room | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 worked | punct |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 worked | expl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 worked | nsubj |
| 25 | worked | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 appointed | parataxis |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 worked | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 worked | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 made | cc |
| 31 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 night | advmod |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 night | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 night | cop |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 made | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 made | aux |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 worked | conj |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 pot | det |
| 39 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 40 little | advmod |
| 40 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 pot | amod |
| 41 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 appointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | past · passive | the prince | thus property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme swineherd=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | live | past | many | a wretchedly small room near the pigsty | as such | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | |||
| 3 | work | past | many | there | day | long property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 4 | is a | past | swineherd | night | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | past · perfect · passive | night | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pot=Product |
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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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