Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 84

"What does this mean?" he said, when he saw that his daughter was kissing the swineherd, and then hit their heads with his shoe just as the swineherd received the sixty-eighth kiss.

Who acts: this, remainder, daughter, swineherd · What happens: mean, say, see, kiss, hit, receive · To what, where: swineherd, heads, eighth kiss · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (this, remainder, daughter, 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	_	5 mean	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 mean	obj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	aux
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 mean	nsubj
5	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 said	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 mean	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
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	9 said	ccomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 kissing	mark
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 daughter	nmod:poss
16	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kissing	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 kissing	aux
18	kissing	kiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 saw	ccomp
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 swineherd	det
20	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kissing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hit	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hit	cc
23	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 hit	advmod
24	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 saw	conj
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hit	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 shoe	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 shoe	nmod:poss
29	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hit	obl
30	just	just	ADV	_	33 swineherd	advmod
31	as	as	ADP	_	33 swineherd	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 swineherd	det
33	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 received	nsubj
34	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 hit	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 kiss	det
36	sixty	sixty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 eighth	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 sixty	punct
38	eighth	eighth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 kiss	amod
39	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 received	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	mean in a quote	present · do-support	this				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	say speech: ask	past	remainder				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	remainder				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	kiss	past · progressive	remainder's daughter	the swineherd			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Co-Agent
5	hit	past	remainder not said here	ladies's heads	then	with remainder's shoe	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with shoe=Instrument
6	receive	past	the swineherd	the eighth kiss			vn obtain-13.5.2 «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: «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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