--- title: The Thames, the Danube, and the Rhine still roll their course, Mont… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: The Thames, the Danube, and the Rhine still roll their course, Mont Blanc stands firm with its snow-capped summit, and the Northern Lights gleam over the land of the North; but generation after generation has become dust, whole rows of the mighty of the moment are forgotten, like those who already s --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/191/5/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / [In a Thousand Years](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/191/) / 5 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, In a Thousand Years, sentence 5 The Thames, the Danube, and the Rhine still roll their course, Mont Blanc stands firm with its snow-capped summit, and the Northern Lights gleam over the land of the North; but generation after generation has become dust, whole rows of the mighty of the moment are forgotten, like those who already slumber under the hill on which the rich trader, whose ground it is, has built a bench, on which he can sit and look out across his waving corn fields. **Who acts:** Rhine, Thames, Northern Lights, generation, Mont · **What happens:** roll, stand, cap, gleam, become, forget · **To what, where:** course, land, dust, hill, rich trader, waving corn fields This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, In a Thousand Years. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhine, Thames, Northern Lights, generation), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:191:5 # text = The Thames, the Danube, and the Rhine still roll their course, Mont Blanc stands firm with its snow-capped summit, and the Northern Lights gleam over the land of the North; but generation after generation has become dust, whole rows of the mighty of the moment are forgotten, like those who already slumber under the hill on which the rich trader, whose ground it is, has built a bench, on which he can sit and look out across his waving corn fields. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Danube Danube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Rhine Rhine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 10 still still ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 roll roll VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 Mont Mont PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 Blanc Blanc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 flat _ _ 17 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 18 firm firm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 with with ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 20 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 21 snow snow NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 capped cap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 24 summit summit NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 Northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 Lights light NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nsubj _ _ 30 gleam gleam VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 31 over over ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 of of ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ; ; PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 38 but but CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 39 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 40 after after ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 generation generation NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 aux _ _ 43 become become VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 parataxis _ _ 44 dust dust NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 46 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 rows row NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 conj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 mighty mighty NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ _ 51 of of ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 moment moment NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nmod _ _ 54 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 55 aux:pass _ _ 55 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 43 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 57 like like ADP IN _ 58 case _ _ 58 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 55 obl _ _ 59 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 61 nsubj _ _ 60 already already ADV RB _ 61 advmod _ _ 61 slumber slumber VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 58 acl:relcl _ _ 62 under under ADP IN _ 64 case _ _ 63 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ _ 65 on on ADP IN _ 66 case _ _ 66 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 77 obl _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 69 det _ _ 68 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 69 amod _ _ 69 trader trader NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 70 , , PUNCT , _ 72 punct _ _ 71 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 72 nmod:poss _ _ 72 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 69 conj _ _ 73 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 74 nsubj _ _ 74 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 69 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 75 , , PUNCT , _ 69 punct _ _ 76 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 77 aux _ _ 77 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 64 acl:relcl _ _ 78 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 79 det _ _ 79 bench bench NOUN NN Number=Sing 77 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 80 , , PUNCT , _ 85 punct _ _ 81 on on ADP IN _ 82 case _ _ 82 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 85 obl _ _ 83 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 85 nsubj _ _ 84 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 85 aux _ _ 85 sit sit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 55 parataxis _ _ 86 and and CCONJ CC _ 87 cc _ _ 87 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 85 conj _ _ 88 out out ADP RP _ 87 compound:prt _ _ 89 across across ADP IN _ 93 case _ _ 90 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 93 nmod:poss _ _ 91 waving wave VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 93 amod _ _ 92 corn corn NOUN NN Number=Sing 93 compound _ _ 93 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 87 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 94 . . PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roll** | present | the Rhine *not said here* | Thames's course | | | still | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Agent | | 2 | **stand** | present | the Thames and the Danube | | | | | firm *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cap** | participle | | | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **gleam** | present | the Northern Lights | | | the land of the North | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over land=Location | | 5 | **become** | present · perfect | generation after generation | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **forget** | present · passive | | dust and whole rows of the mighty of the moment | | the hill | | like those | tree rules | | 7 | **slumber** | present | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **be** | present | generation | the rich trader and the rich trader and the rich trader's ground's ground *not said here* | | | | | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot trader=Theme | | 9 | **build** | present · perfect · passive | | the rich trader and the rich trader and the rich trader's ground's ground | | the hill | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bench=Product | | 10 | **sit** | can | Mont | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | | 11 | **look out** | infinitive | Mont *not said here* | | | Mont's waving corn fields | | | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | | 12 | **wave** | gerund | | | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/191/4/) - next →: [sentence 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/191/6/) - ↑ back to [In a Thousand Years](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/191/)