--- title: And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw away his old clothes, and then stepped forward in his splendid dress, looking so beautiful that the Princess was obliged to courtesy. Who acts: Swineherd. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Sw --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/106/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [The Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/) / 106 # The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 106 And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw away his old clothes, and then stepped forward in his splendid dress, looking so beautiful that the Princess was obliged to courtesy. **Who acts:** Swineherd · **What happens:** go, wash, throw away, step forward, look, oblige · **To what, where:** tree, black face, old clothes, splendid dress, Princess This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, 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 (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:pg640:43:106 # text = And the Swineherd went behind a tree, washed the black and brown off his face, threw away his old clothes, and then stepped forward in his splendid dress, looking so beautiful that the Princess was obliged to courtesy. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Swineherd swineherd NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 behind behind ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 washed wash VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 11 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ _ 14 off off ADP RP _ 13 compound:prt _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 threw throw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 26 advmod _ _ 26 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 27 forward forward ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 splendid splendid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 dress dress NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 26 advcl _ _ 34 so so ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 Princess Princess PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj:pass _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 obliged oblige VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 35 advcl _ _ 41 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 42 courtesy courtesy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | the Swineherd | | | a tree | | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme behind tree=Location | | 2 | **wash** | past | the Swineherd *not said here* | Swineherd's black face | | | | | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Patient | | 3 | **throw away** | past | the Swineherd *not said here* | Swineherd's old clothes | | | | away *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | | 4 | **step forward** | past | the Swineherd *not said here* | | | Swineherd's splendid dress | then | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in dress=Trajectory | | 5 | **look** | gerund | the Swineherd *not said here* | | | | | beautiful *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **oblige** | past · passive | | the Princess | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result | | 7 | **courtesy** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | tree rules | 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:** «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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 105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/105/) - next →: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/107/) - ↑ back to [The Swineherd](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/43/)