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title: But she clomb and she clomb, till she got dizzy in the light and shi… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: But she clomb and she clomb, till she got dizzy in the light and shivered with the cold, and dazed with the fear; but still she clomb, till at last, quite dazed and silly-like, she let clean go, and sank down--down--down. Who acts: she clomb, t. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jac
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 16, sentence 4

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But she clomb and she clomb, till she got dizzy in the light and shivered with the cold, and dazed with the fear; but still she clomb, till at last, quite dazed and silly-like, she let clean go, and sank down--down--down.

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**Who acts:** she clomb, t · **What happens:** get, shiver, daze, let, go, sink down · **To what, where:** light

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she clomb, t), 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:pg14241:30:4
# text = But she clomb and she clomb, till she got dizzy in the light and shivered with the cold, and dazed with the fear; but still she clomb, till at last, quite dazed and silly-like, she let clean go, and sank down--down--down.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	compound	_	_
3	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	compound	_	_
6	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	shivered	shiver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dazed	daze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	still	still	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	compound	_	_
30	clomb	clomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	till	till	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	dazed	daze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	parataxis	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	silly	silly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	like	like	INTJ	UH	_	39	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
45	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
50	down	down	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	down	down	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	down	down	ADV	RB	_	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | she clomb and she clomb |  |  | the light |  | dizzy *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **shiver** | participle | she clomb and she clomb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the cold | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **daze** | participle | she clomb and she clomb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the fear | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **daze** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **let** | past | t |  |  |  |  | clean *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **go** | infinitive | t *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sink down** | past | she clomb and she clomb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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