--- title: They can rise higher than our parent, the sun. They have the magic w… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: They can rise higher than our parent, the sun. They have the magic words that rule the wind and the waves, and compel them to serve and obey; and they can, at last, cast off the heavy, oppressive weight of mortality, and soar upwards." Who acts: children, magic words. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of H --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/102/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/) / 102 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 102 They can rise higher than our parent, the sun. They have the magic words that rule the wind and the waves, and compel them to serve and obey; and they can, at last, cast off the heavy, oppressive weight of mortality, and soar upwards." **Who acts:** children, magic words · **What happens:** rise, have, rule, compel, serve, obey · **To what, where:** magic words, wind, children, heavy oppressive weight 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 (children, magic words), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:52:102 # text = They can rise higher than our parent, the sun. They have the magic words that rule the wind and the waves, and compel them to serve and obey; and they can, at last, cast off the heavy, oppressive weight of mortality, and soar upwards." 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 rise rise VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 advmod _ _ 5 than than ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 parent parent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 sun. sun. NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 11 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 words word NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 16 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 17 nsubj _ _ 17 rule rule VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 acl:relcl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 compel compel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 serve serve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 advcl _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 obey obey VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 39 cast cast VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 37 conj _ _ 40 off off ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 42 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 44 oppressive oppressive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 mortality mortality NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 soar soar VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 51 upwards upwards ADV RB _ 50 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 " " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | can | children *= child* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **have** | present | children *= child* | the magic words | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient | | 3 | **rule** | present | the magic words | the wind and the waves | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme | | 4 | **compel** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | children *= child* | | | | | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | | 5 | **serve** | to-infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **obey** | infinitive | children *= child* *not said here* | | | | | | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **cast off** | participle | children *= child* *not said here* | the heavy oppressive weight of mortality | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Product | | 8 | **soar** | present | | | | | | upwards *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/101/) - next →: [sentence 103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/103/) - ↑ back to [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/)