Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 36

It seemed a most dangerous undertaking to ascend it, but Rudy knew how to climb; he had learnt that from the cat, and he had no fear.

Who acts: It, Rudy · What happens: seem, undertake, ascend, know, climb, learn · To what, where: nest, that, fear

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, Rudy), 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	2 seemed	nsubj
2	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dangerous	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 seemed	xcomp
6	undertaking	undertake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 dangerous	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 ascend	mark
8	ascend	ascend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 undertaking	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ascend	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
12	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	16 climb	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 climb	mark
16	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 knew	xcomp
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 learnt	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 learnt	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 learnt	aux
20	learnt	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 seemed	conj
21	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	20 learnt	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 cat	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 cat	det
24	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 learnt	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 had	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 had	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 seemed	parataxis
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 fear	det
30	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 had	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	It		dangerous property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
2	undertake	gerund				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	ascend	to-infinitive		nest		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory
4	know	past	Rudy			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	climb	to-infinitive	Rudy not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	learn	past · perfect	Rudy	that	from the cat	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent that=Topic from cat=Source
7	have	past	Rudy	no fear		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient

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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