Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album), sentence 2

As is often the case with many of these towns, it is charmingly situated on the banks of the river Neckar, which rushes rapidly by, passing villages, old knights' castles, and green vineyards, till its waters mingle with those of the stately Rhine.

Who acts: river Neckar, waters · What happens: be, situate, rush, pass, mingle · To what, where: town, banks

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, (written For the Schiller Album). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river Neckar, waters), 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 case	case
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 case	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	5 case	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 case	det
5	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 situated	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 towns	case
7	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 towns	amod
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 towns	case
9	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 towns	det
10	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 case	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 case	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 situated	nsubj:pass
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 situated	aux:pass
14	charmingly	charmingly	ADV	_	15 situated	advmod
15	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 banks	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 banks	det
18	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 situated	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	22 Neckar	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Neckar	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Neckar	compound
22	Neckar	Neckar	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 banks	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 rushes	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 rushes	nsubj
25	rushes	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Neckar	acl:relcl
26	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	25 rushes	advmod
27	by	by	ADP	_	30 villages	case
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 villages	punct
29	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 villages	amod
30	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 rushes	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 castles	punct
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 knights	amod
33	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 castles	nmod:poss
34	'	's	PART	_	33 knights	case
35	castles	castle	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 banks	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 vineyards	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 vineyards	cc
38	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 vineyards	amod
39	vineyards	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 situated	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 mingle	punct
41	till	till	SCONJ	_	44 mingle	mark
42	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 waters	nmod:poss
43	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 mingle	nsubj
44	mingle	mingle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 situated	conj
45	with	with	ADP	_	46 those	case
46	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	44 mingle	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 Rhine	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 Rhine	det
49	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Rhine	amod
50	Rhine	Rhine	PROPN	Number=Sing	46 those	nmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 situated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present				as the case; with this many towns; often property	tree rules
2	situate	present · passive		town	the banks of the river Neckar and old knights's castles	green vineyards obl; charmingly property	vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on bank=Destination
3	rush	present	the river Neckar			by passing villages; rapidly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by village=Trajectory
4	pass	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	mingle	present	town's waters			with those	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with that=Co-Patient

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.

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