Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 90

At length he had crossed the highest ridges, and before him lay the green pasture lands sloping down towards the valley, which was once his home.

Who acts: peak, green pasture, valley · What happens: cross, lie, land, slope down, be · To what, where: highest ridges, length, home

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 (peak, green pasture, 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 crossed	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 crossed	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	aux
5	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ridges	det
7	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 ridges	amod
8	ridges	ridge	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 crossed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lay	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 lay	cc
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 lay	mark
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 crossed	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 pasture	det
15	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 pasture	amod
16	pasture	pasture	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lands	nsubj
17	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 lay	parataxis
18	sloping	slope	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	17 lands	xcomp
19	down	down	ADV	_	18 sloping	advmod
20	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 valley	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 valley	det
22	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sloping	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 home	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 home	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 home	cop
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 home	advmod
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 home	nmod:poss
28	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 valley	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 crossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	past · perfect	peak	the highest ridges	length		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient
2	lie	past	peak				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	land	present	the green pasture				tree rules
4	slope down	gerund	the green pasture not said here			towards the valley and peak's home; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	past	the valley and peak's home	peak's home		once 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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