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title: Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and desce… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish. Who acts: you, us, rivers. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. 
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 2

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Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish.

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**Who acts:** you, us, rivers · **What happens:** let, climb, descend, rush, reach, vanish · **To what, where:** us, summits, green meadows, sea

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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 (you, us, rivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:52:2
# text = Let us climb to the dazzling snow-fields at their summits, and descend again to the green meadows beneath, through which rivers and brooks rush along as if they could not quickly enough reach the sea and vanish.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	dazzling	dazzling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
7	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	summits	summit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	descend	descend	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
16	again	again	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	meadows	meadow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
21	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
25	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	brooks	brook	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	rush	rush	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
29	along	along	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
30	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
35	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	advcl	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	vanish	vanish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **climb** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  | fields's summits |  | to the dazzling snow fields | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to field=Destination |
| 3 | **descend** | infinitive |  |  |  | the green meadows | again | beneath *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Location |
| 4 | **rush** | present | rivers and brooks |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through which=Trajectory |
| 5 | **reach** | could | rivers and brooks *not said here* | the sea |  |  |  | enough, quickly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme |
| 6 | **vanish** | present | rivers and brooks *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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