Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 102

They can rise higher than our parent, the sun. They have the magic words that rule the wind and the waves, and compel them to serve and obey; and they can, at last, cast off the heavy, oppressive weight of mortality, and soar upwards."

Who acts: children, magic words · What happens: rise, have, rule, compel, serve, obey · To what, where: magic words, wind, children, heavy oppressive weight

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, I. Little Rudy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, magic words), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rise	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	aux
3	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 rise	advmod
5	than	than	ADP	_	7 parent	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 parent	nmod:poss
7	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 higher	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sun.	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun.	det
10	sun.	sun.	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 parent	conj
11	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 have	nsubj
12	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sun.	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
14	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 words	amod
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 have	obj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 rule	nsubj
17	rule	rule	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 words	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wind	det
19	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 rule	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 waves	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 waves	det
22	waves	wave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 wind	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 compel	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 compel	cc
25	compel	compel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rise	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 compel	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 serve	mark
28	serve	serve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 compel	advcl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 obey	cc
30	obey	obey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 serve	conj
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 last	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 can	cc
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 can	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 last	aux
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 last	punct
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 last	case
37	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rise	advcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 cast	punct
39	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	37 last	conj
40	off	off	ADP	_	45 weight	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 weight	det
42	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 weight	amod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 heavy	punct
44	oppressive	oppressive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 weight	amod
45	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 cast	obl
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 mortality	case
47	mortality	mortality	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 weight	nmod
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 soar	punct
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 soar	cc
50	soar	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rise	parataxis
51	upwards	upwards	ADV	_	50 soar	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rise	punct
53	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rise	can	children = child			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	children = child	the magic words		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient
3	rule	present	the magic words	the wind and the waves		vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme
4	compel	infinitive	children = child not said here	children = child		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	serve	to-infinitive	children = child not said here			vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent
6	obey	infinitive	children = child not said here			vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	cast off	participle	children = child not said here	the heavy oppressive weight of mortality		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Product
8	soar	present			upwards property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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