Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Bell, sentence 64

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 · What happens: take, climb up, wriggle, bark, reach, see · To what, where: hold, wet stones, top, height, creepers

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.

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	_	4 taking	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 taking	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
4	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 climbed	csubj
5	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 taking	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 creepers	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 creepers	det
8	creepers	creeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hold	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 roots	cc
10	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 creepers	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 taking	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 climbed	nsubj
13	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 climbed	compound:prt
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 stones	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stones	det
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 stones	amod
18	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 climbed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wriggling	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	25 wriggling	advmod
21	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 snakes	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 water	punct
23	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wriggling	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 wriggling	aux
25	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 climbed	advcl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 toads	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 toads	det
28	toads	toad	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 wriggling	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 barked	punct
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 barked	mark
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 barked	nsubj:pass
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 barked	aux:pass
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 barked	punct
34	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 wriggling	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 him	case
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 barked	obl
37	:	:	PUNCT	_	39 reached	punct
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 reached	nsubj
39	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 climbed	parataxis
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 top	det
41	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 reached	obj
42	before	before	ADP	_	44 sun	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 sun	det
44	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 reached	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 seen	punct
46	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 reached	advcl
47	from	from	ADP	_	50 height	case
48	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	50 height	det:predet
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 height	det
50	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seen	obl
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 set	punct
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 set	aux
53	quite	quite	ADV	_	54 set	advmod
54	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	39 reached	conj
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 climbed	punct
56	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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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