The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 106
And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw away his old clothes, and then stepped forward in his splendid dress, looking so beautiful that the Princess was obliged to courtesy.
Who acts: Swineherd · What happens: go, wash, throw away, step forward, look, oblige · To what, where: tree, black face, old clothes, splendid dress, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Swineherd | det |
| 3 | Swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 washed | punct |
| 9 | washed | wash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 face | det |
| 11 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 face | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 brown | cc |
| 13 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 black | conj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 brown | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 face | nmod:poss |
| 16 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 washed | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 threw | punct |
| 18 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 washed | conj |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 threw | advmod |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 clothes | amod |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 threw | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stepped | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stepped | cc |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 stepped | advmod |
| 26 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 washed | conj |
| 27 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 26 stepped | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 dress | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 dress | nmod:poss |
| 30 | splendid | splendid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 dress | amod |
| 31 | dress | dress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stepped | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 looking | punct |
| 33 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 stepped | advcl |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 beautiful | advmod |
| 35 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 looking | xcomp |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 obliged | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Princess | det |
| 38 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 obliged | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 obliged | aux:pass |
| 40 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 beautiful | advcl |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 courtesy | mark |
| 42 | courtesy | courtesy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 obliged | xcomp |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 | wash | past | the Swineherd not said here | Swineherd's black face | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw away | past | the Swineherd not said here | Swineherd's old clothes | away property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 4 | step forward | past | the Swineherd not said here | Swineherd's splendid dress | then | forward property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dress=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | look | gerund | the Swineherd not said here | beautiful property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | oblige | past · passive | the Princess | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | |||||
| 7 | courtesy | to-infinitive | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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