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title: Then Rudy, remembering his early lesson in climbing, "Hold fast, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Rudy, remembering his early lesson in climbing, "Hold fast, and do not fear," descended carefully down the ladders, and at last stood safely on the ground with the young living eaglet, where he was received with loud shouts of joy and congratulations. Who acts: Rudy, you. A sentence of «Fairy T
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest, sentence 48

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Then Rudy, remembering his early lesson in climbing, "Hold fast, and do not fear," descended carefully down the ladders, and at last stood safely on the ground with the young living eaglet, where he was received with loud shouts of joy and congratulations.

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**Who acts:** Rudy, you · **What happens:** remember, hold, not fear, descend, stand, receive · **To what, where:** early lesson, climbing, ladders, last, Rudy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VII. the Eagle's Nest. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rudy, you), 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:pg27200:58:48
# text = Then Rudy, remembering his early lesson in climbing, "Hold fast, and do not fear," descended carefully down the ladders, and at last stood safely on the ground with the young living eaglet, where he was received with loud shouts of joy and congratulations.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	Rudy	Rudy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	climbing	climbing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	do	do	AUX	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
18	fear	fear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	_
21	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
30	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
31	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
32	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	eaglet	eaglet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
41	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	44	advmod	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl:relcl	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obl	_	_
47	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	congratulations	congratulation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | gerund | Rudy | Rudy's early lesson |  | climbing | then |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **fear** *in a quote* | infinitive · do-support | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **descend** | past |  |  |  | the ladders |  | carefully *property* | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down ladder=Location |
| 5 | **stand** | past |  |  |  | last |  | on the ground; with the young living eaglet; safely *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at last=Location |
| 6 | **receive** | past · passive |  | Rudy |  |  |  | with loud | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 7 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of joy and congratulations | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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