--- title: Rudy often reached the top of the mountain before the sunrise, and t… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: Rudy often reached the top of the mountain before the sunrise, and there inhaled his morning draught of the fresh, invigorating mountain air,--God's own gift, which men call the sweet fragrance of plant and herb on the mountain-side, and the mint and wild thyme in the valleys. Who acts: Rudy, men, G --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/42/) [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/) / 42 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 42 Rudy often reached the top of the mountain before the sunrise, and there inhaled his morning draught of the fresh, invigorating mountain air,--God's own gift, which men call the sweet fragrance of plant and herb on the mountain-side, and the mint and wild thyme in the valleys. **Who acts:** Rudy, men, God · **What happens:** reach, inhale, invigorate, call, gift · **To what, where:** top, morning draught, mountain air, own gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Rudy, men, God), 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:pg27200:52:42 # text = Rudy often reached the top of the mountain before the sunrise, and there inhaled his morning draught of the fresh, invigorating mountain air,--God's own gift, which men call the sweet fragrance of plant and herb on the mountain-side, and the mint and wild thyme in the valleys. 1 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 often often ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 top top NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 9 before before ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sunrise sunrise NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 14 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 15 advmod _ _ 15 inhaled inhale VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 16 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 17 morning morning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 draught draught NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 invigorating invigorate VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 24 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ _ 25 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 27 -- -- PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 29 's 's PART POS _ 28 case _ _ 30 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 gift gift NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obj _ _ 34 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 35 call call VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 acl:relcl _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 fragrance fragrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 45 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 48 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 mint mint NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 xcomp _ _ 52 and and CCONJ CC _ 54 cc _ _ 53 wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 amod _ _ 54 thyme thyme NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 55 in in ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 57 det _ _ 57 valleys valley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 54 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Rudy | the top of the mountain | | | sunrise | often *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | | 2 | **inhale** | participle | Rudy *not said here* | Rudy's morning draught | | there | | | vn exhale-40.1.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent draught=Theme | | 3 | **invigorate** | gerund | Rudy *not said here* | mountain air | | | | God's own gift *obl* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus air=Experiencer | | 4 | **call** | present | men | God's own gift | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme fragrance=Result | | 5 | **gift** | | God | | | | | | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent | 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 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/43/) - ↑ back to [I. Little Rudy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/52/)