Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 45

They fly far and wide, in rain and sunshine; they know the whole forest here, both within and without.”

Who acts: gnats · What happens: fly, know · To what, where: rain, whole forest

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fly	nsubj
2	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fly	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wide	cc
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 far	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rain	punct
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 rain	case
8	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fly	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sunshine	cc
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rain	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 know	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 know	nsubj
13	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fly	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 forest	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 forest	amod
16	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 know	obj
17	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 know	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 within	punct
19	both	both	CCONJ	_	20 within	cc:preconj
20	within	within	ADP	_	13 know	ccomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 without	cc
22	without	without	ADP	_	20 within	conj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fly	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 fly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	present	gnats = gnat			rain and sunshine		far property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rain=Location
2	know	present	gnats = gnat	the whole forest		here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer forest=Stimulus

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: «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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