Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 76

It is certainly a long way for any one who takes the high-road, but not so far if he takes a short cut across the mountain, and that just suits a chamois-hunter.

Who acts: sun, one, Rudy, that · What happens: be, take, suit · To what, where: long way, high road, short cut, mountain, chamois hunter

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 (sun, one, Rudy, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 way	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	cop
3	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	6 way	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 way	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 way	amod
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 one	case
8	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 way	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 takes	nsubj
11	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 road	det
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 road	amod
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 high	punct
15	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 takes	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 takes	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 takes	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 far	advmod
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 far	advmod
20	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 takes	advmod
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 takes	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 takes	nsubj
23	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 way	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cut	det
25	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cut	amod
26	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	obj
27	across	across	ADP	_	29 mountain	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mountain	det
29	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 takes	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 suits	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 suits	cc
32	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 suits	nsubj
33	just	just	ADV	_	34 suits	advmod
34	suits	suit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 takes	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 hunter	det
36	chamois	chamois	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hunter	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 chamois	punct
38	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 suits	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 way	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	sun	a long way		for any one; certainly property	tree rules
2	take	present	any one	the high road			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme
3	take a condition, not said to happen	present	Rudy	a short cut	the mountain	far property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cut=Theme
4	suit	present	that	a chamois hunter			tree rules

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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