Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 32

Then came the swineherd; he was collecting thistles and shrubs to burn them for the ashes.

Who acts: foreigner · What happens: come, collect, burn · To what, where: swineherd, thistles, thistle

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigner), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 came	advmod
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 swineherd	det
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 came	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 collecting	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 collecting	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 collecting	aux
8	collecting	collect	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 came	advcl
9	thistles	thistle	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collecting	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shrubs	cc
11	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thistles	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 burn	mark
13	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 collecting	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 burn	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 ashes	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ashes	det
17	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 burn	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past		the swineherd	then		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swineherd=Theme
2	collect	past · progressive	foreigner	thistles and shrubs			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thistle=Theme
3	burn	to-infinitive	foreigner not said here	thistle		for the ashes	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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