--- title: So they clambered, and crept on, and a frightful steep place it was;… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: So they clambered, and crept on, and a frightful steep place it was; but the chimney-sweep helped her and supported her, till they got higher and higher. Who acts: stove, chimney sweep. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stove, chimney sweep), 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:pg27200:166:52 # text = So they clambered, and crept on, and a frightful steep place it was; but the chimney-sweep helped her and supported her, till they got higher and higher. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 clambered clamber VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 7 on on ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 11 frightful frightful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 sweep sweep NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 helped help VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 23 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 supported support VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 till till SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 29 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 31 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 30 xcomp _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **clamber** | past | stove | a frightful steep place | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **creep on** | past | stove *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **help** | past | the chimney sweep | | wife | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | | 4 | **support** | past | the chimney sweep *not said here* | wife | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | | 5 | **get** | past | stove | | | | | high *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | 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:** «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. - ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/53/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherdess and the Sheep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/)