Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Shepherdess and the Sheep, sentence 60

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

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.

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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 climbed	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	12 climbed	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deal	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 deal	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 deal	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 deal	amod
7	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 climbed	parataxis
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 trouble	case
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 deal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 deal	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 climbed	nsubj
12	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 climbed	compound:prt
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 chimney	det
15	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 climbed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 crept	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 crept	cc
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	19 crept	advmod
19	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 climbed	conj
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 pipe	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pipe	det
22	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 crept	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 stove	cc
24	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 pipe	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 places	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 places	nsubj
27	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 places	cop
28	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	32 places	advmod
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 places	advmod
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 pleasant	advmod
31	pleasant	pleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 places	amod
32	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 pipe	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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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