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title: She is also a child of the air, and with the swiftness of the chamoi… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: She is also a child of the air, and with the swiftness of the chamois she can reach the snow-covered mountain tops, where the boldest mountaineer has to cut footsteps in the ice to ascend. Who acts: laughter, boldest mountaineer. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Anders
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, I. Little Rudy, sentence 72

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She is also a child of the air, and with the swiftness of the chamois she can reach the snow-covered mountain tops, where the boldest mountaineer has to cut footsteps in the ice to ascend.

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**Who acts:** laughter, boldest mountaineer · **What happens:** be, reach, cover, have, cut, ascend · **To what, where:** child, covered mountain tops, footsteps, ice

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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 (laughter, boldest mountaineer), 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:pg27200:52:72
# text = She is also a child of the air, and with the swiftness of the chamois she can reach the snow-covered mountain tops, where the boldest mountaineer has to cut footsteps in the ice to ascend.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	swiftness	swiftness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	chamois	chamois	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
21	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
24	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	tops	top	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	31	advmod	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	boldest	bold	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	mountaineer	mountaineer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	cut	cut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	ascend	ascend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | laughter | a child |  |  |  | of the air | tree rules |
| 2 | **reach** | can | laughter | the covered mountain tops |  |  |  | with the swiftness of the chamois | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme |
| 3 | **cover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | the boldest mountaineer |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **cut** | to-infinitive | the boldest mountaineer *not said here* | footsteps |  | the ice |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset footstep=Product |
| 6 | **ascend** | to-infinitive | the boldest mountaineer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «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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