Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 72

She is also a child of the air, and with the swiftness of the chamois she can reach the snow-covered mountain tops, where the boldest mountaineer has to cut footsteps in the ice to ascend.

Who acts: laughter, boldest mountaineer · What happens: be, reach, cover, have, cut, ascend · To what, where: child, covered mountain tops, footsteps, ice

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 (laughter, boldest mountaineer), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 child	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 child	cop
3	also	also	ADV	_	5 child	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 child	det
5	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 air	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 air	det
8	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 child	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 reach	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 reach	cc
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 swiftness	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swiftness	det
13	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 reach	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 chamois	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 chamois	det
16	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 swiftness	nmod
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 reach	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 reach	aux
19	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 child	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 tops	det
21	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 covered	compound
22	-	-	PUNCT	_	21 snow	punct
23	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tops	amod
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tops	compound
25	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 reach	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 has	punct
27	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 has	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mountaineer	det
29	boldest	bold	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 mountaineer	amod
30	mountaineer	mountaineer	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 has	nsubj
31	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 reach	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 cut	mark
33	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 has	xcomp
34	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 cut	obj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 ice	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 ice	det
37	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cut	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 ascend	mark
39	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 cut	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 child	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	laughter	a child		of the air	tree rules
2	reach	can	laughter	the covered mountain tops		with the swiftness of the chamois	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme
3	cover	participle					vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
4	have	present	the boldest mountaineer				tree rules
5	cut	to-infinitive	the boldest mountaineer not said here	footsteps	the ice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset footstep=Product
6	ascend	to-infinitive	the boldest mountaineer not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «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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