Fifty Famous Stories Retold, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps., sentence 3

He wanted very much to take his soldiers into It-a-ly; but between France and Italy there are high mountains called the Alps, the tops of which are covered with snow.

Who acts: France, high mountains · What happens: want, take, be, call, cover · To what, where: soldiers, ly, France, high mountains · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, How Napoleon Crossed the Alps.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (France, high mountains), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	2 wanted	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 soldiers	nmod:poss
8	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	14 ly	case
10	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ly	nsubj
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 ly	punct
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 ly	det
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 a	punct
14	ly	ly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 are	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 are	cc
17	between	between	ADP	_	18 France	case
18	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 are	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 Italy	cc
20	Italy	Italy	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 France	conj
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 are	expl
22	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 mountains	amod
24	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 are	nsubj
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 mountains	acl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Alps	det
27	Alps	Alp	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 called	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 tops	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 tops	det
30	tops	top	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 mountains	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 which	case
32	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 covered	obl
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 covered	aux:pass
34	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 tops	acl:relcl
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 snow	case
36	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 covered	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	France				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	France not said here	France's soldiers	a ly		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme into ly=Destination
3	does	present	high mountains and the tops		France and Italy; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between france=Location
4	call	participle		high mountains and the tops not said here			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cover	present · passive				of the tops; with snow	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with snow=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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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