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title: And so, with a great deal of trouble, they climbed down the chimney,… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And so, with a great deal of trouble, they climbed down the chimney, and then crept through the pipe and stove, which were certainly not very pleasant places. Who acts: legs, pipe. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, with its depen
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 60

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And so, with a great deal of trouble, they climbed down the chimney, and then crept through the pipe and stove, which were certainly not very pleasant places.

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**Who acts:** legs, pipe · **What happens:** climb down, creep, not be, deal · **To what, where:** chimney, pipe, pleasant places, trouble

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 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 (legs, pipe), 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:pg27200:166:60
# text = And so, with a great deal of trouble, they climbed down the chimney, and then crept through the pipe and stove, which were certainly not very pleasant places.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	deal	deal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	32	nsubj	_	_
27	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **climb down** | past | legs *= leg* | the chimney |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **creep** | past | legs *= leg* *not said here* |  |  | the pipe and stove and pleasant places | then |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pipe=Trajectory |
| 3 | **not** **is a** | past | the pipe and stove and pleasant places | pleasant places |  |  |  | certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **deal** |  |  | trouble |  |  |  |  | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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:** «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.

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