--- title: He and the shepherdess had been placed close together, side by side;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He and the shepherdess had been placed close together, side by side; and, being so placed, they became engaged to each other, for they were very well suited, being both made of the same sort of china, and being equally fragile. Who acts: marks. 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C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (marks), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:166:13 # text = He and the shepherdess had been placed close together, side by side; and, being so placed, they became engaged to each other, for they were very well suited, being both made of the same sort of china, and being equally fragile. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 shepherdess shepherdess NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ _ 5 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 8 close close ADV RB Degree=Pos 7 advmod _ _ 9 together together ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 17 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 placed place VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 23 engaged engage VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 xcomp _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 each each DET DT ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp 23 obl _ _ 26 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 28 for for SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj:pass _ _ 30 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 33 advmod _ _ 33 suited suit VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 aux:pass _ _ 36 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 sort sort NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 43 china china NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 45 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 46 being be AUX VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 48 cop _ _ 47 equally equally ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 48 fragile fragile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **place** | past · perfect · passive | | beard | | | | side by side *obl*; close, together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **place** | gerund · passive | | | | | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP» | | 3 | **become** | past | marks *= mark* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **engage** | participle | marks *= mark* *not said here* | | | | | to each | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **suit** | past · passive | | marks *= mark* | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **make** | gerund · passive | | both | | | | of the same sort of china | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | | 7 | **is** | gerund | | | | | | equally, fragile *property* | tree rules | | 8 | **sort** | | | china | | | | | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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:** «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/12/) - next →: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/14/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherdess and the Sheep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/)