Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 37
From the glaciers of the Rhone, at the foot of the Simplon, between its ever-changing mountain summits, stretches the valley of the canton Valais.
Who acts: changing · What happens: change, summit, stretch · To what, where: mountain, valley
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (changing), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 glaciers | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 glaciers | det |
| 3 | glaciers | glacier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Rhone | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Rhone | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Rhone | det |
| 6 | Rhone | rhone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 foot | punct |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 foot | det |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Rhone | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Simplon | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Simplon | det |
| 13 | Simplon | Simplon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 foot | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 summits | punct |
| 15 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 summits | mark |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 summits | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 changing | advmod |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 ever | punct |
| 19 | changing | change | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 summits | csubj |
| 20 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 changing | obj |
| 21 | summits | summit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 Rhone | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stretches | punct |
| 23 | stretches | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 summits | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 valley | det |
| 25 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stretches | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 canton | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 canton | det |
| 28 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 valley | nmod |
| 29 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 canton | appos |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Rhone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | gerund | mountain | ever | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mountain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | summit | present | changing | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | stretch | present | changing not said here | the valley of the canton | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent valley=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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