Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 77
He is always climbing higher and higher, far away from all others, but not from me.
Who acts: boy · What happens: climb
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 (boy), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 climbing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbing | aux |
| 3 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 4 climbing | advmod |
| 4 | climbing | climb | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 climbing | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 higher | cc |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 higher | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 away | punct |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 away | advmod |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 climbing | advmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 others | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 others | det |
| 13 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 away | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 me | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 me | cc |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 me | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 climbing | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present · progressive | boy | always, away, high property | vn run-51.3.2 «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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