--- title: Thus the prince was appointed imperial swineherd, and as such he liv… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Thus the prince was appointed imperial swineherd, and as such he lived in a wretchedly small room near the pigsty; there he worked all day long, and when it was night he had made a pretty little pot. Who acts: many, swineherd. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:188:29 # text = Thus the prince was appointed imperial swineherd, and as such he lived in a wretchedly small room near the pigsty; there he worked all day long, and when it was night he had made a pretty little pot. 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 4 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 imperial imperial ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 swineherd swineherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 as as ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 obl _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 wretchedly wretchedly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 near near ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 pigsty pigsty NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 23 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 25 expl _ _ 24 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 worked work VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 26 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 28 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 31 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 34 advmod _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 39 pretty pretty ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 40 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 pot pot NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | past · passive | | the prince | | | | thus *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme swineherd=Attribute | | 2 | **live** | past | many | | | a wretchedly small room near the pigsty | | as such | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | | 3 | **work** | past | many | | | there | day | long *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | past | swineherd | night | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | | night | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary pot=Product | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/188/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/188/30/) - ↑ back to [The Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/188/)