Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 2

Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish.

Who acts: you, us, rivers · What happens: let, climb, descend, rush, reach, vanish · To what, where: us, summits, green meadows, sea

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 (you, us, rivers), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	to	to	ADP	_	9 fields	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
6	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fields	compound
7	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fields	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 snow	punct
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 summits	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 summits	nmod:poss
12	summits	summit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 climb	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 descend	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 descend	cc
15	descend	descend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
16	again	again	ADV	_	15 descend	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 meadows	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meadows	det
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 meadows	amod
20	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 descend	obl
21	beneath	beneath	ADV	_	15 descend	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 rush	punct
23	through	through	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 rush	obl
25	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 rush	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 brooks	cc
27	brooks	brook	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rivers	conj
28	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 descend	conj
29	along	along	ADV	_	28 rush	advmod
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 could	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 as	fixed
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 could	nsubj
33	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 reach	aux
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 could	advmod
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	37 reach	advmod
36	enough	enough	ADV	_	37 reach	advmod
37	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 rush	advcl
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 sea	det
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 reach	obj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 vanish	cc
41	vanish	vanish	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 reach	conj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us				tree rules
2	climb	infinitive	us not said here		fields's summits		to the dazzling snow fields	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to field=Destination
3	descend	infinitive			the green meadows	again	beneath property	vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Location
4	rush	present	rivers and brooks				along property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory
5	reach	could	rivers and brooks not said here	the sea			enough, quickly property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme
6	vanish	present	rivers and brooks not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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