--- title: The eyes of the brave Rudy sparkled as he described the life of a hu… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The eyes of the brave Rudy sparkled as he described the life of a hunter, or spoke of the cunning of the chamois and their wonderful leaps; also of the powerful fohn and the rolling avalanche. Who acts: eyes, Rudy. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. 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Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes, Rudy), 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:pg27200:57:18 # text = The eyes of the brave Rudy sparkled as he described the life of a hunter, or spoke of the cunning of the chamois and their wonderful leaps; also of the powerful fohn and the rolling avalanche. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 brave brave ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 Rudy Rudy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 sparkled sparkle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 as as SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 described describe VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 or or CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 parataxis _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 cunning cunning NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 chamois chamois NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 27 wonderful wonderful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 leaps leap NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 30 also also ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 powerful powerful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 fohn fohn NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 38 amod _ _ 38 avalanche avalanche NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sparkle** | past | the eyes of the brave Rudy | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **describe** | past | Rudy | the life of a hunter | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | of the cunning of the chamois and eyes's wonderful leaps | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **roll** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **leap** | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | nom leap «act 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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/19/) - ↑ back to [VI. the Visit to the Mill](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/57/)