Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 53

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 · What happens: show, set, reach, sit down, be, suppose · To what, where: best places, sweep, little china foot, top, last, stove

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 (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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	nsubj
2	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 showed	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 places	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 places	amod
6	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 showed	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 set	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 set	mark
10	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 places	acl:relcl
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 foot	nmod:poss
12	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 foot	amod
13	china	china	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 foot	compound
14	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 set	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 reached	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	20 reached	advmod
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 reached	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 reached	nsubj
20	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 showed	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 top	det
22	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 reached	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 chimney	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 chimney	det
25	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 top	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sat	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 sat	cc
28	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 showed	parataxis
29	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	28 sat	obj
30	down	down	ADP	_	28 sat	compound:prt
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 tired	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	36 tired	case
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tired	nsubj
34	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 tired	cop
35	very	very	ADV	_	36 tired	advmod
36	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 sat	advcl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 supposed	punct
38	as	as	SCONJ	_	41 supposed	mark
39	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 supposed	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 supposed	aux:pass
41	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 sat	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 showed	punct

Pragmatics

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

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