Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 89
The swineherd went behind a tree, wiped his face, threw off his poor attire and stepped forth in his princely garments; he looked so beautiful that the princess could not help bowing to him.
Who acts: swineherd, prince, princess · What happens: go, wipe, throw off, step, look, not help · To what, where: tree, face, poor attire, princely garments, prince
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 (swineherd, prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 swineherd | det |
| 2 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 wiped | punct |
| 8 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wiped | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 threw | punct |
| 12 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | parataxis |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 threw | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 attire | nmod:poss |
| 15 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 attire | amod |
| 16 | attire | attire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 threw | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 stepped | cc |
| 18 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 threw | conj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 stepped | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 garments | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 garments | nmod:poss |
| 22 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 garments | amod |
| 23 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stepped | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 looked | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 looked | nsubj |
| 26 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 beautiful | advmod |
| 28 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 looked | xcomp |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 help | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 princess | det |
| 31 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 help | nsubj |
| 32 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 help | aux |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 help | advmod |
| 34 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 beautiful | advcl |
| 35 | bowing | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 help | xcomp |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 bowing | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to 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 | wipe | past | the swineherd not said here | prince's face | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source | ||||
| 3 | throw off | past | prince's poor attire | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attire=Theme | |||||
| 4 | step | past | prince's princely garments | forth property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garment=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | look | past | prince | beautiful 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 | prince | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.pivot»: agent=Agent to he=Pivot |
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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