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title: And then, taking hold of the creepers and roots, he climbed up on th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: And then, taking hold of the creepers and roots, he climbed up on the wet stones, where water-snakes were wriggling and the toads, as it were, barked at him: he reached the top before the sun, seen from such a height, had quite set. " Who acts: sun, water snakes. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans C
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 64

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And then, taking hold of the creepers and roots, he climbed up on the wet stones, where water-snakes were wriggling and the toads, as it were, barked at him: he reached the top before the sun, seen from such a height, had quite set. "

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**Who acts:** sun, water snakes · **What happens:** take, climb up, wriggle, bark, reach, see · **To what, where:** hold, wet stones, top, height, creepers

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Bell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, water snakes), 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:pg27200:9:64
# text = And then, taking hold of the creepers and roots, he climbed up on the wet stones, where water-snakes were wriggling and the toads, as it were, barked at him: he reached the top before the sun, seen from such a height, had quite set. "
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	csubj	_	_
5	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	creepers	creeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	toads	toad	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	barked	bark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
35	at	at	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	39	punct	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	before	before	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	advcl	_	_
47	from	from	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
48	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	50	det:predet	_	_
49	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
53	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	54	advmod	_	_
54	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
56	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | gerund |  | hold of the creepers and roots |  |  | then |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 2 | **climb up** | past | sun |  |  | the wet stones |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on stone=Trajectory |
| 3 | **wriggle** | past · progressive | water snakes |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bark** | past · passive |  | hold |  |  |  | at sun | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: subject=Theme at he=Stimulus |
| 5 | **reach** | past | sun | the top |  |  | before the sun |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
| 6 | **see** | participle | sun *not said here* |  |  | such height |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **set** | past · perfect | sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **hold** |  |  | the creepers and roots |  |  |  |  | nom hold «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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