Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 1

At Montreux, one of the towns which encircle the northeast part of the lake of Geneva, lived Babette's godmother, the noble English lady, with her daughters and a young relative.

Who acts: towns · What happens: encircle, live · To what, where: northeast part, godmother, Montreux

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, X. the Godmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (towns), 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 Montreux	case
2	Montreux	Montreux	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 Montreux	appos
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 towns	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 towns	det
7	towns	town	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 encircle	nsubj
9	encircle	encircle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 towns	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 part	det
11	northeast	northeast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 part	amod
12	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 encircle	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 lake	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lake	det
15	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 part	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Geneva	case
17	Geneva	Geneva	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 lake	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Montreux	punct
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	Babette	Babette	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 godmother	nmod:poss
21	's	's	PART	_	20 Babette	case
22	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lady	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 lady	det
25	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lady	amod
26	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 lady	compound
27	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 godmother	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 daughters	punct
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 daughters	case
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 daughters	nmod:poss
31	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lived	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 relative	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 relative	det
34	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 relative	amod
35	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 daughters	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	encircle	present	the towns	the northeast part of the lake of Geneva					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme part=Co-Theme
2	live	past		Babette's godmother and the noble English lady		Montreux		with Babette's daughters and a young relative	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme godmother=Location

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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