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title: The ladies placed themselves in front of her and spread out their dr… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: The ladies placed themselves in front of her and spread out their dresses, and she gave the swineherd ten kisses and received the pot. Who acts: ladies, sow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Swineherd, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Swineherd, sentence 53

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The ladies placed themselves in front of her and spread out their dresses, and she gave the swineherd ten kisses and received the pot.

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**Who acts:** ladies, sow · **What happens:** place, spread out, give, receive · **To what, where:** ladies, front, dresses, swineherd, pot

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, 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 (ladies, sow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:188:53
# text = The ladies placed themselves in front of her and spread out their dresses, and she gave the swineherd ten kisses and received the pot.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	ladies	lady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	dresses	dress	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	kisses	kiss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	pot	pot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | the ladies | ladies *= lady* |  | front of sow |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in front=Destination |
| 2 | **spread out** | past | the ladies *not said here* | ladies's dresses |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dress=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | past | sow | the swineherd |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent swineherd=Recipient kiss=Theme |
| 4 | **receive** | past | sow *not said here* | the pot |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pot=Theme |

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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.

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**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.

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