Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, X. the Godmother, sentence 10

The river Rhone glides gently by beneath the lofty snow-capped hills of Savoy, and not far from its mouth lies a little island in the lake, so small that, seen from the shore, it looks like a ship.

Who acts: river Rhone, Rhone · What happens: glide, cap, lie, see, look · To what, where: little island, lake, shore

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 (river Rhone, Rhone), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Rhone	det
2	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Rhone	compound
3	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 glides	nsubj
4	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	gently	gently	ADV	_	4 glides	advmod
6	by	by	ADP	_	13 hills	case
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	13 hills	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hills	det
9	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hills	amod
10	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 capped	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 snow	punct
12	capped	cap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 hills	amod
13	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 glides	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 Savoy	case
15	Savoy	Savoy	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 hills	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lies	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lies	cc
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 far	advmod
19	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 lies	advmod
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 far	obl
23	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glides	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 island	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 island	amod
26	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lies	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 lake	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lake	det
29	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 island	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 small	punct
31	so	so	ADV	_	32 small	advmod
32	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 glides	parataxis
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 seen	mark
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 seen	punct
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 small	advcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 shore	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 shore	det
38	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seen	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 looks	punct
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 looks	nsubj
41	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 glides	conj
42	like	like	ADP	_	44 ship	case
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 ship	det
44	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 looks	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 glides	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	glide	present	the river Rhone			by the lofty capped hills of Savoy; gently property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by hill=Trajectory
2	cap	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
3	lie	present	the river Rhone not said here	a little island	the lake	far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location island=Theme
4	see	participle	the river Rhone not said here		the shore		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	look	present	Rhone			like a ship	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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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