Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 6

They themselves knew not how old they were, but they could remember very well that there had been many more; that they were of a family from foreign lands, and that for them and theirs the whole forest was planted.

Who acts: snails, many more · What happens: not know, be, remember, plant · To what, where: that, foreign lands, snails · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (snails, many more), 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	3 knew	nsubj
2	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	1 They	nmod:unmarked
3	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 knew	advmod
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 knew	ccomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 were	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 remember	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 remember	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 remember	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 remember	aux
13	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 knew	conj
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 well	advmod
15	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 remember	advmod
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 been	mark
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 been	expl
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 been	aux
19	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 remember	ccomp
20	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 more	amod
21	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	19 been	nsubj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 family	punct
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 family	mark
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 family	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 family	cop
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 family	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 family	det
28	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 knew	obl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 lands	case
30	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 lands	amod
31	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 family	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 that	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 that	cc
34	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 knew	obl
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 them	case
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 that	nmod
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 planted	cc
38	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 planted	nsubj:pass
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 forest	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 forest	amod
41	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 planted	nsubj:pass
42	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 planted	aux:pass
43	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 knew	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not know	past	snails = snail	that			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past				old property	tree rules
3	remember	could	snails = snail			well property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past · perfect	many more		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	snails = snail		foreign lands	of a family	tree rules
6	plant	past · passive		snails = snail			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: «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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