Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 52

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 · What happens: clamber, creep on, help, support, get · To what, where: frightful steep place, wife

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 clambered	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 clambered	nsubj
3	clambered	clamber	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 crept	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 crept	cc
6	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clambered	conj
7	on	on	ADV	_	6 crept	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 place	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 place	cc
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 place	det
11	frightful	frightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
12	steep	steep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 place	amod
13	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 clambered	obl
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 place	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 helped	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 helped	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 sweep	det
19	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sweep	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 chimney	punct
21	sweep	sweep	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 helped	nsubj
22	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 clambered	parataxis
23	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 helped	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 supported	cc
25	supported	support	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 helped	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 supported	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 got	punct
28	till	till	SCONJ	_	30 got	mark
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 got	nsubj
30	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 helped	conj
31	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 got	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 higher	cc
33	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 higher	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 clambered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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.

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