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title: Then came the swineherd; he was collecting thistles and shrubs to bu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the swineherd; he was collecting thistles and shrubs to burn them for the ashes. Who acts: foreigner. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven, sentence 32

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Then came the swineherd; he was collecting thistles and shrubs to burn them for the ashes.

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**Who acts:** foreigner · **What happens:** come, collect, burn · **To what, where:** swineherd, thistles, thistle

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, A Leaf From Heaven. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreigner), 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:pg27200:49:32
# text = Then came the swineherd; he was collecting thistles and shrubs to burn them for the ashes.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	thistles	thistle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	shrubs	shrub	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
14	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  | the swineherd |  |  | then |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location swineherd=Theme |
| 2 | **collect** | past · progressive | foreigner | thistles and shrubs |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thistle=Theme |
| 3 | **burn** | to-infinitive | foreigner *not said here* | thistle |  |  |  | for the ashes | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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