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title: But said Rudy to himself, "Nothing is too high for a man to reach: h… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: But said Rudy to himself, "Nothing is too high for a man to reach: he must climb with confidence in himself, and he will not fail." Who acts: Rudy, Nothing. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 33

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But said Rudy to himself, "Nothing is too high for a man to reach: he must climb with confidence in himself, and he will not fail."

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**Who acts:** Rudy, Nothing · **What happens:** say, be, reach, climb, not fail · **To what, where:** Rudy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, Nothing), 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:pg27200:55:33
# text = But said Rudy to himself, "Nothing is too high for a man to reach: he must climb with confidence in himself, and he will not fail."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	11	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	too	too	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	reach	reach	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
30	fail	fail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Rudy |  | Rudy |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Nothing |  |  |  |  | for a man; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **reach** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **climb** *in a quote* | must | Rudy |  |  |  |  | with confidence; in Rudy | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in himself=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **fail** *in a quote* | future | Rudy |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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