--- title: An old tower stands here, as if it were guardian to the canton Valai… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: An old tower stands here, as if it were guardian to the canton Valais, which ends at this point; and from it we can look across the stone bridge to the toll-house on the other side, where the canton Vaud commences. Who acts: old tower, tower, canton, we. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/40/) [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/) / [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/) / 40 # Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, IV. Babette, sentence 40 An old tower stands here, as if it were guardian to the canton Valais, which ends at this point; and from it we can look across the stone bridge to the toll-house on the other side, where the canton Vaud commences. **Who acts:** old tower, tower, canton, we · **What happens:** stand, be, end, look, commence · **To what, where:** point 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 (old tower, tower, canton, we), 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:pg27200:55:40 # text = An old tower stands here, as if it were guardian to the canton Valais, which ends at this point; and from it we can look across the stone bridge to the toll-house on the other side, where the canton Vaud commences. 1 An a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stands stand VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 7 as as SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 8 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 10 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 11 guardian guardian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 advcl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 canton canton NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 Valais Valais PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 18 nsubj _ _ 18 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 21 point point NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 26 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 29 across across ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 toll toll NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 36 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 40 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 43 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 47 advmod _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 canton canton NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nsubj _ _ 46 Vaud Vaud PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 47 commences commence VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | present | a old tower | | | here | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is** | past | tower | | | | | to the canton; guardian *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **end** | present | the canton | | | this point | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 4 | **look** | can | we | | | | | across the stone bridge; to the toll house; on the other side; from tower | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from it=Theme | | 5 | **commence** | present | the canton | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/39/) - next →: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/41/) - ↑ back to [IV. Babette](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/55/)