Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 98

The lofty trees, with their thickly entwined branches, the naked negroes on horseback, and whole herds of elephants treading down bamboo thickets with their broad, heavy feet.

Who acts: elephants · What happens: entwine, tread down · To what, where: bamboo thickets

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (elephants), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 trees	det
2	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 branches	punct
5	with	with	ADP	_	9 branches	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 branches	nmod:poss
7	thickly	thickly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 branches	amod
8	entwined	entwine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 branches	amod
9	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trees	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 negroes	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 negroes	det
12	naked	naked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 negroes	amod
13	negroes	negro	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 branches	appos
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 horseback	case
15	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 negroes	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 herds	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 herds	cc
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 herds	amod
19	herds	herd	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 trees	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 elephants	case
21	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 herds	nmod
22	treading	tread	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 elephants	acl
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 treading	advmod
24	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 thickets	compound
25	thickets	thicket	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 treading	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	31 feet	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 feet	nmod:poss
28	broad	broad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 feet	amod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 feet	punct
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 feet	amod
31	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 treading	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 trees	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entwine	participle							vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	tread down	gerund	elephants not said here	bamboo thickets				with elephants's broad heavy feet; down property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent thicket=Patient with foot=Instrument

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.

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