Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 1

In the forest that extends from the banks of the Gudenau, in North Jutland, a long way into the country, and not far from the clear stream, rises a great ridge of land, which stretches through the wood like a wall.

Who acts: forest, great ridge · What happens: extend, rise, stretch · To what, where: banks, great ridge, wood

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forest, great ridge), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 forest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forest	det
3	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 extends	nsubj
5	extends	extend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 forest	acl:relcl
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 banks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 banks	det
8	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 extends	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Gudenau	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gudenau	det
11	Gudenau	Gudenau	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 banks	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Jutland	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Jutland	case
14	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Jutland	compound
15	Jutland	Jutland	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Gudenau	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 way	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 way	det
18	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 way	amod
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Gudenau	appos
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 country	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 country	det
22	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 way	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rises	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 rises	cc
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 far	advmod
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 rises	advmod
27	from	from	ADP	_	30 stream	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stream	det
29	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stream	amod
30	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 far	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rises	punct
32	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 extends	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 ridge	det
34	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 ridge	amod
35	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rises	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 land	case
37	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ridge	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 stretches	punct
39	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 stretches	nsubj
40	stretches	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 ridge	acl:relcl
41	through	through	ADP	_	43 wood	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 wood	det
43	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stretches	obl
44	like	like	ADP	_	46 wall	case
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 wall	det
46	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stretches	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 forest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	extend	present	the forest		the banks of the Gudenau and North Jutland		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	rise	present	the forest not said here	a great ridge of land		far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ridge=Theme
3	stretch	present	a great ridge of land		the wood	like a wall	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through wood=Location

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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