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title: Through it runs the noble river of the Rhone, which often overflows… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Through it runs the noble river of the Rhone, which often overflows its banks, covering fields and highways, and destroying everything in its course. Who acts: business, noble river. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, IV. Babette, with its dependency tree and t
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 38

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Through it runs the noble river of the Rhone, which often overflows its banks, covering fields and highways, and destroying everything in its course.

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**Who acts:** business, noble river · **What happens:** run, overflow, cover, destroy · **To what, where:** noble river, banks, fields, everything, course

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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 (business, noble river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg27200:55:38
# text = Through it runs the noble river of the Rhone, which often overflows its banks, covering fields and highways, and destroying everything in its course.
1	Through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	runs	run	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	overflows	overflow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	covering	cover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
18	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	highways	highway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
24	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	23	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | present | business | the noble river of the Rhone |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location river=Theme |
| 2 | **overflow** | present | the noble river of the Rhone | business's banks |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cover** | gerund | the noble river of the Rhone *not said here* | fields and highways |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Destination |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund | business *not said here* | everything |  | business's course |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient |

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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.

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**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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