Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 33

But said Rudy to himself, "Nothing is too high for a man to reach: he must climb with confidence in himself, and he will not fail."

Who acts: Rudy, Nothing · What happens: say, be, reach, climb, not fail · To what, where: Rudy · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Nothing), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 said	cc
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 said	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 high	punct
8	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 high	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 high	cop
10	too	too	ADV	_	11 high	advmod
11	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 man	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 high	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 reach	mark
16	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 high	advcl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 climb	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 climb	nsubj
19	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 climb	aux
20	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	parataxis
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 confidence	case
22	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 climb	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 himself	case
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 climb	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 fail	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 fail	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 fail	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fail	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 fail	advmod
30	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 climb	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 climb	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	20 climb	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Rudy	Rudy		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	Nothing		for a man; high property	tree rules
3	reach in a quote	to-infinitive	Nothing not said here			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	climb in a quote	must	Rudy		with confidence; in Rudy	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in himself=Trajectory
5	not fail in a quote	future	Rudy			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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