Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 39

Near the towns of Sion and St. Maurice, the valley takes a turn, and bends like an elbow, and behind St. Maurice becomes so narrow that there is only space enough for the bed of the river and a narrow carriage-road.

Who acts: valley · What happens: take, bend, become, be · To what, where: turn, towns, St. Maurice

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 (valley), 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 towns	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 towns	det
3	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 takes	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Sion	case
5	Sion	Sion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 towns	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 St.	cc
7	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Sion	conj
8	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 St.	flat
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 towns	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 valley	det
11	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 turn	det
14	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bends	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bends	cc
17	bends	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 elbow	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 elbow	det
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 bends	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 becomes	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 becomes	cc
23	behind	behind	ADP	_	25 Maurice	case
24	St.	St.	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Maurice	compound
25	Maurice	maurice	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 becomes	obl
26	becomes	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 takes	conj
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 narrow	advmod
28	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 becomes	xcomp
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 is	mark
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 is	expl
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 narrow	cop
32	only	only	ADV	_	33 space	advmod
33	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 is	nsubj
34	enough	enough	ADV	_	33 space	advmod
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 bed	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 bed	det
37	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 space	nmod
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 river	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 river	det
40	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bed	nmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 road	cc
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 road	det
43	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 road	amod
44	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 road	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 carriage	punct
46	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 river	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	present	the valley	a turn	the towns of Sion and St.		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme
2	bend	present	the valley not said here			like a elbow	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	present	the valley not said here		St. Maurice		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	is	present	the valley not said here			narrow property	tree rules

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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