Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 40
An old tower stands here, as if it were guardian to the canton Valais, which ends at this point; and from it we can look across the stone bridge to the toll-house on the other side, where the canton Vaud commences.
Who acts: old tower, tower, canton, we · What happens: stand, be, end, look, commence · To what, where: point
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 (old tower, tower, canton, we), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 stands | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 guardian | mark |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 guardian | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 guardian | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 guardian | cop |
| 11 | guardian | guardian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stands | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 canton | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 canton | det |
| 14 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 guardian | obl |
| 15 | Valais | Valais | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 canton | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 ends | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 ends | nsubj |
| 18 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 canton | acl:relcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 point | det |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ends | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 look | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 look | cc |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 look | obl |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 look | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | aux |
| 28 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stands | parataxis |
| 29 | across | across | ADP | _ | 32 bridge | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 bridge | det |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bridge | compound |
| 32 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 house | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 house | det |
| 35 | toll | toll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 house | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 toll | punct |
| 37 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 side | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 side | det |
| 40 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 side | amod |
| 41 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 look | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 commences | punct |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 47 commences | advmod |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 canton | det |
| 45 | canton | canton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 commences | nsubj |
| 46 | Vaud | Vaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 canton | appos |
| 47 | commences | commence | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 look | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a old tower | here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | past | tower | to the canton; guardian property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | end | present | the canton | this point | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | look | can | we | across the stone bridge; to the toll house; on the other side; from tower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | commence | present | the canton | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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