Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 60
"'There is nothing so high that a man cannot reach, if he will,' answered Rudy; for he is a brave youth.
Who acts: man · What happens: be, not reach, answer · To what, where: Rudy
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | _ | 7 high | punct |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 3 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 high | cop |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 is | nsubj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 high | advmod |
| 7 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 reach | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 reach | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 reach | advmod |
| 13 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 high | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 will | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 will | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 will | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 reach | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 19 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 high | parataxis |
| 21 | Rudy | Rudy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 youth | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 youth | case |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 youth | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 youth | cop |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 youth | det |
| 27 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 youth | amod |
| 28 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 high | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 high | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | high property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not reach in a quote | can | a man | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Rudy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rudy=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | man | for a brave youth | 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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