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title: Then the swineherd opened the sack and took the place of the shoemak… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the swineherd opened the sack and took the place of the shoemaker, who went gaily off, driving the pigs before him. Who acts: swineherd, shoemaker. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 144

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Then the swineherd opened the sack and took the place of the shoemaker, who went gaily off, driving the pigs before him.

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**Who acts:** swineherd, shoemaker · **What happens:** open, take, go, drive · **To what, where:** sack, place, pigs

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swineherd, shoemaker), 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:pg5615:17:144
# text = Then the swineherd opened the sack and took the place of the shoemaker, who went gaily off, driving the pigs before him.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	swineherd	swineherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sack	sack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	shoemaker	shoemaker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	gaily	gaily	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	off	off	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pigs	pig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	before	before	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **open** | past | the swineherd | the sack |  |  | then |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sack=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | past | the swineherd *not said here* | the place of the shoemaker |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | past | the shoemaker |  |  |  |  | off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **drive** | gerund | the swineherd *not said here* | the pigs |  |  | before swineherd |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pig=Theme before he=Destination |

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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:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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