The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 91

‘Put yourselves in front of us,’ she said then; and so all the ladies-in-waiting put themselves in front, and he began to kiss the Princess.

Who acts: rest, Emperor · What happens: put, say, begin, kiss · To what, where: yourselves, front, ladies, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (rest, Emperor), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
2	Put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
3	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 Put	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Put	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 front	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Put	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 said	advmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	23 put	advmod
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 ladies	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 ladies	det
18	ladies	lady	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 put	nsubj:pass
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 put	punct
20	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 put	mark
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 in	punct
22	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 put	aux:pass
23	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 said	conj
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 put	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 front	case
26	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 began	cc
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 said	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 kiss	mark
32	kiss	kiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Princess	det
34	Princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 kiss	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	put	infinitive		yourselves	front of us		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme in front=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past	rest			then	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	put	gerund · passive		all ladies	front		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset themselves=Goal
4	begin	past	Emperor				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	kiss	to-infinitive	Emperor not said here	the Princess			vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Co-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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