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title: There, where Hannibal defeated Flaminius, the grape vines clung to e… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 chi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Best Thing the Goloshes Did, sentence 23

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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.

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**Who acts:** Hannibal, lovely naked children · **What happens:** defeat, cling, watch, grasp · **To what, where:** Flaminius, grape vines, herd, blossoms, green tendril fingers

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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.

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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:pg27200:45:23
# text = 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.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
4	Hannibal	Hannibal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	defeated	defeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Flaminius	Flaminius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	grape	grape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	vines	vine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	11	obl	_	_
14	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	fixed	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
21	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	tendril	tendril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
25	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	wayside	wayside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
32	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	_
45	under	under	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	blossoms	blossom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	fragrant	fragrant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	laurel	laurel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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