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title: These cantons are separated by the Rhone, over which is a bridge tha… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: These cantons are separated by the Rhone, over which is a bridge that unites them. Who acts: Rhone, bridge. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill, sentence 37

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These cantons are separated by the Rhone, over which is a bridge that unites them.

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**Who acts:** Rhone, bridge · **What happens:** separate, be, unite · **To what, where:** cantons, bridge, miller

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, VI. the Visit to the Mill. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rhone, bridge), 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:pg27200:57:37
# text = These cantons are separated by the Rhone, over which is a bridge that unites them.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	cantons	canton	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	separated	separate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Rhone	rhone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	unites	unite	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **separate** | present · passive | the Rhone | this cantons |  |  |  |  | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | a bridge |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **unite** | present | a bridge | miller |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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