Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 53
The ladies placed themselves in front of her and spread out their dresses, and she gave the swineherd ten kisses and received the pot.
Who acts: ladies, sow · What happens: place, spread out, give, receive · To what, where: ladies, front, dresses, swineherd, pot
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 (ladies, sow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ladies | det |
| 2 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 placed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 front | case |
| 6 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 front | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spread | cc |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 spread | compound:prt |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spread | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 swineherd | det |
| 19 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 kisses | nummod |
| 21 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 received | cc |
| 23 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gave | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 pot | det |
| 25 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 received | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | the ladies | ladies = lady | front of sow | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 2 | spread out | past | the ladies not said here | ladies's dresses | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | sow | the swineherd | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Recipient kiss=Theme | ||||
| 4 | receive | past | sow not said here | the pot | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=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: «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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