Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 41

"Higher, higher!" cried the trees and the bushes, "see to what height we have grown, and how fast we hold, even to the narrow edges of the rocks."

Who acts: Higher, height, we · What happens: cry, see, grow, hold · To what, where: trees, narrow edges · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Higher, height, we), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Higher	punct
2	Higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 cried	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 higher	punct
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 Higher	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Higher	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Higher	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 trees	det
9	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 bushes	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bushes	det
12	bushes	bush	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 trees	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 see	punct
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	conj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 what	case
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 see	obl
18	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grown	nsubj
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 grown	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 grown	aux
21	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 what	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hold	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hold	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	25 fast	advmod
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 hold	advmod
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 hold	nsubj
27	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 cried	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 edges	punct
29	even	even	ADV	_	33 edges	advmod
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 edges	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 edges	det
32	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 edges	amod
33	edges	edge	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hold	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 rocks	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 rocks	det
36	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 edges	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 hold	punct
38	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Higher	the trees and the bushes		tree rules
2	see in a quote	infinitive	Higher not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	grow in a quote	present · perfect	height			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold in a quote	present	we	the narrow edges of the rocks	fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=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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