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title: The lofty trees, with their thickly entwined branches, the naked neg… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, with its
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Old Street Lamp, sentence 98

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:133:98
# text = 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.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
7	thickly	thickly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	entwined	entwine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	negroes	negro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	elephants	elephant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
22	treading	tread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	bamboo	bamboo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	thickets	thicket	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
28	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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