Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 38

Through it runs the noble river of the Rhone, which often overflows its banks, covering fields and highways, and destroying everything in its course.

Who acts: business, noble river · What happens: run, overflow, cover, destroy · To what, where: noble river, banks, fields, everything, course

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 (business, noble river), 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	Through	through	SCONJ	_	3 runs	mark
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 runs	nsubj
3	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 runs	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Rhone	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Rhone	det
9	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 river	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 overflows	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 overflows	nsubj
12	often	often	ADV	_	13 overflows	advmod
13	overflows	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 river	acl:relcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 banks	nmod:poss
15	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 overflows	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 covering	punct
17	covering	cover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 overflows	advcl
18	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 covering	obj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 highways	cc
20	highways	highway	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fields	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 destroying	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 destroying	cc
23	destroying	destroy	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 runs	advcl
24	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	23 destroying	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 course	case
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 course	nmod:poss
27	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 destroying	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 runs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present	business	the noble river of the Rhone			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location river=Theme
2	overflow	present	the noble river of the Rhone	business's banks		often property	tree rules
3	cover	gerund	the noble river of the Rhone not said here	fields and highways			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination
4	destroy	gerund	business not said here	everything	business's course		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=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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