--- title: He showed her the best places on which to set her little china foot,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: He showed her the best places on which to set her little china foot, so at last they reached the top of the chimney, and sat themselves down, for they were very tired, as may be supposed. Who acts: place, stove. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. 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 (place, stove), 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:pg27200:166:53 # text = He showed her the best places on which to set her little china foot, so at last they reached the top of the chimney, and sat themselves down, for they were very tired, as may be supposed. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 showed show VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 iobj _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obl _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 set set VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 12 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 china china NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 chimney chimney NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 29 themselves themselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 down down ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 32 for for ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 cop _ _ 35 very very ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 tired tired ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 38 as as SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 39 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 supposed suppose VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **show** | past | place | the best places | sweep | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient place=Topic | | 2 | **set** | to-infinitive | place *not said here* | sweep's little china foot | | the best places | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme on which=Destination | | 3 | **reach** | past | stove | the top of the chimney | | last | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent top=Theme at last=Asset | | 4 | **sit down** | past | | stove | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is** | past | stove | | | | | tired *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **suppose** | may · passive | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S» | 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 52](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/52/) - next →: [sentence 54](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/54/) - ↑ back to [The Shepherdess and the Sheep](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/166/)