The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 144
Then the swineherd opened the sack and took the place of the shoemaker, who went gaily off, driving the pigs before him.
Who acts: swineherd, shoemaker · What happens: open, take, go, drive · To what, where: sack, place, pigs
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swineherd, shoemaker), 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 | 4 opened | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 swineherd | det |
| 3 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | nsubj |
| 4 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sack | det |
| 6 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 opened | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 took | cc |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 opened | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 shoemaker | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 shoemaker | det |
| 13 | shoemaker | shoemaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shoemaker | acl:relcl |
| 17 | gaily | gaily | ADV | _ | 18 off | advmod |
| 18 | off | off | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 driving | punct |
| 20 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 took | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 pigs | det |
| 22 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 driving | obj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 driving | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | the swineherd | the sack | then | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme | |||
| 2 | take | past | the swineherd not said here | the place of the shoemaker | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | past | the shoemaker | off property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | drive | gerund | the swineherd not said here | the pigs | before swineherd | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme before he=Destination |
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: «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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