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title: Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-tr
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5, sentence 79

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Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.

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**Who acts:** Lake, Hannibal, rivers, lovely naked children · **What happens:** illumine, lay, flame, defeat, hold, tend · **To what, where:** Lake, gold, Flaminius, each, green embraces, herd

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This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Shoes of Fortune, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lake, Hannibal, rivers, lovely naked children), 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:pg1597:9:79
# text = Lake Thracymene, illumined by the evening sun, lay like flaming gold between the dark-blue mountain-ridges; here, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the rivers now held each other in their green embraces; lovely, half-naked children tended a herd of black swine, beneath a group of fragrant laurel-trees, hard by the road-side.
1	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	Thracymene	Thracymene	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	illumined	illumine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	flaming	flame	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	between	between	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
16	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ridges	ridge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
23	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
26	Hannibal	Hannibal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	Flaminius	Flaminius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
34	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	33	obj	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	fixed	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
38	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	embraces	embrace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
41	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	45	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nsubj	_	_
47	tended	tend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
54	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	group	group	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	parataxis	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
58	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
59	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	56	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
63	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	advcl	_	_
64	by	by	ADP	IN	_	68	case	_	_
65	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
66	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	68	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	66	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **illumine** | participle |  | Lake *not said here* |  |  |  | by the evening sun | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | present | Lake |  |  | here |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flame** | gerund | Lake *not said here* | gold |  |  |  | between the blue mountain ridges | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |
| 4 | **defeat** | past | Hannibal | Flaminius |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **hold** | past | the rivers | each |  | rivers's green embraces | now |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent each=Theme in embrace=Location |
| 6 | **tend** | past | lovely naked children | a herd of black swine |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 7 | **embrace** |  | rivers *= river* |  |  |  |  |  | nom embrace «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (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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