--- title: When Rudy at length reached the highest part of the mountain, where… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When Rudy at length reached the highest part of the mountain, where the path led down to the valley of the Rhone, the snow had ceased, and in the clear heavens he saw two bright stars twinkling. Who acts: Rudy, path, Rhone, snow. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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C. Andersen, V. on the Way Home. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, path, Rhone, snow), 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:pg27200:56:30 # text = When Rudy at length reached the highest part of the mountain, where the path led down to the valley of the Rhone, the snow had ceased, and in the clear heavens he saw two bright stars twinkling. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 at at ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 length length NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 16 advmod _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 path path NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 17 down down ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Rhone rhone NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 27 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 ceased cease VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 23 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 heavens heaven NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obl _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 37 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 39 nummod _ _ 38 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 obj _ _ 40 twinkling twinkle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 39 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **reach** | past | Rudy at length | the highest part of the mountain | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 2 | **lead down** | past | the path | | | | | to the valley of the Rhone; down *property* | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to valley=Patient | | 3 | **cease** | past · perfect · passive | the Rhone *not said here* | the snow | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | | 4 | **see** | past | snow | two bright stars | | the clear heavens | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer star=Stimulus | | 5 | **twinkle** | gerund | two bright stars *not said here* | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/29/) - next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/31/) - ↑ back to [V. on the Way Home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/56/)