The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 68
And the ladies-in-waiting placed themselves in front and then spread out their dresses; so the Swineherd got his ten kisses, and she got the pot.
Who acts: Swineherd, Papa · What happens: place, spread out, get, kiss · To what, where: ladies, front, dresses, ten kisses, pot
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, Papa), 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 | _ | 8 placed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ladies | det |
| 3 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 8 placed | mark |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 in | punct |
| 7 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 placed | aux:pass |
| 8 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 placed | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 front | case |
| 11 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 placed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spread | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 spread | advmod |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 placed | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 spread | compound:prt |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dresses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dresses | dress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spread | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 got | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 got | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Swineherd | det |
| 21 | Swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 got | nsubj |
| 22 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 placed | parataxis |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 kisses | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 kisses | nummod |
| 25 | kisses | kiss | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 got | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 got | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 got | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 got | nsubj |
| 29 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 got | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 pot | det |
| 31 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 got | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | gerund · passive | the ladies | front | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme themselves=Destination | ||||
| 2 | spread out | infinitive | ladies's dresses | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past | the Swineherd | Swineherd's ten kisses | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kiss=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | get | past | Papa | the pot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pot=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | kiss | Swineherd | nom kiss «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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