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title: Near the towns of Sion and St. Maurice, the valley takes a turn, and… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Near the towns of Sion and St. Maurice, the valley takes a turn, and bends like an elbow, and behind St. Maurice becomes so narrow that there is only space enough for the bed of the river and a narrow carriage-road. Who acts: valley. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. An
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 39

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Near the towns of Sion and St. Maurice, the valley takes a turn, and bends like an elbow, and behind St. Maurice becomes so narrow that there is only space enough for the bed of the river and a narrow carriage-road.

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**Who acts:** valley · **What happens:** take, bend, become, be · **To what, where:** turn, towns, St. Maurice

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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 (valley), 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:pg27200:55:39
# text = Near the towns of Sion and St. Maurice, the valley takes a turn, and bends like an elbow, and behind St. Maurice becomes so narrow that there is only space enough for the bed of the river and a narrow carriage-road.
1	Near	near	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Sion	Sion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	takes	take	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	bends	bend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	elbow	elbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Maurice	maurice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
32	only	only	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
42	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
44	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | present | the valley | a turn |  | the towns of Sion and St. |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turn=Theme |
| 2 | **bend** | present | the valley *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like a elbow | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **become** | present | the valley *not said here* |  |  | St. Maurice |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | present | the valley *not said here* |  |  |  |  | narrow *property* | tree rules |

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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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