Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 23
There, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the grape vines clung to each other with the friendly grasp of their green tendril fingers; while, by the wayside, lovely half-naked children were watching a herd of coal-black swine under the blossoms of fragrant laurel.
Who acts: Hannibal, lovely naked children · What happens: defeat, cling, watch, grasp · To what, where: Flaminius, grape vines, herd, blossoms, green tendril fingers
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hannibal, lovely naked children), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 defeated | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 defeated | punct |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 defeated | advmod |
| 4 | Hannibal | Hannibal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 defeated | nsubj |
| 5 | defeated | defeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Flaminius | Flaminius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 defeated | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 vines | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 vines | det |
| 9 | grape | grape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vines | compound |
| 10 | vines | vine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Flaminius | appos |
| 11 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 vines | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 clung | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 grasp | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 grasp | det |
| 17 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grasp | amod |
| 18 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 clung | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fingers | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fingers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 fingers | amod |
| 22 | tendril | tendril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fingers | compound |
| 23 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grasp | nmod |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 watching | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 watching | mark |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 while | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 wayside | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 wayside | det |
| 29 | wayside | wayside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 watching | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 wayside | punct |
| 31 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 children | amod |
| 32 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 34 naked | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 half | punct |
| 34 | naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 children | amod |
| 35 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 watching | nsubj |
| 36 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 watching | aux |
| 37 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 defeated | advcl |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 herd | det |
| 39 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 watching | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 swine | case |
| 41 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 swine | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 coal | punct |
| 43 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 swine | amod |
| 44 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 herd | nmod |
| 45 | under | under | ADP | _ | 47 blossoms | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 blossoms | det |
| 47 | blossoms | blossom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 watching | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 laurel | case |
| 49 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 laurel | amod |
| 50 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 blossoms | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 defeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | defeat | past | Hannibal | Flaminius | there | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cling | participle | the grape vines not said here | to each; with the friendly grasp of vines's green tendril fingers | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to each=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | watch | past · progressive | lovely naked children | a herd of coal black swine | the blossoms of fragrant laurel | by the wayside | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | ||
| 4 | grasp | vines's green tendril fingers | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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