The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 99

‘What is that?’ he said, when he saw the kissing; and then he threw one of his slippers at their heads just as the Swineherd was taking his eighty-sixth kiss.

Who acts: that, Emperor, Swineherd · What happens: be, say, see, throw, take, kiss · To what, where: kissing, one, heads, sixth kiss · 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 (that, Emperor, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 said	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 What	cop
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 What	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 What	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 saw	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 saw	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 saw	nsubj
12	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 kissing	det
14	kissing	kissing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 saw	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 threw	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 threw	cc
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 threw	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 threw	nsubj
19	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 said	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 threw	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 slippers	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 slippers	nmod:poss
23	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
24	at	at	ADP	_	26 heads	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 heads	nmod:poss
26	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 threw	obl
27	just	just	ADV	_	32 taking	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 taking	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Swineherd	det
30	Swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taking	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 taking	aux
32	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 threw	advcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 kiss	nmod:poss
34	eighty	eighty	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 sixth	compound
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 eighty	punct
36	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 kiss	amod
37	kiss	kiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 taking	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	that				tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Emperor				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	see	past	Emperor	the kissing			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer kissing=Stimulus
4	throw	past	Emperor	one of Emperor's slippers	slippers's heads	then	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent one=Theme at head=Destination
5	take	past · progressive	the Swineherd	Emperor's sixth kiss			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kiss=Theme
6	kiss		Emperor				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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