Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 37
These cantons are separated by the Rhone, over which is a bridge that unites them.
Who acts: Rhone, bridge · What happens: separate, be, unite · To what, where: cantons, bridge, miller
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhone, bridge), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 cantons | det |
| 2 | cantons | canton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 separated | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 separated | aux:pass |
| 4 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 Rhone | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Rhone | det |
| 7 | Rhone | rhone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 separated | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 bridge | punct |
| 9 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 bridge | case |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 bridge | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bridge | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bridge | det |
| 13 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 separated | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 unites | nsubj |
| 15 | unites | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bridge | acl:relcl |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 unites | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 separated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | separate | present · passive | the Rhone | this cantons | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a bridge | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | unite | present | a bridge | miller | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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