Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Happy Family, sentence 8

They knew not themselves how old they were; but they could remember the time when there were a great many more of them, and that they were descended from a family which came from foreign lands, and that the whole forest had been planted for them and theirs.

Who acts: snails, a, family · What happens: not know, be, remember, descend, come, plant · To what, where: snails, family, foreign lands, whole forest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» 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, a, family), 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 knew	nsubj
2	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 knew	advmod
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 knew	obl
5	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 knew	ccomp
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 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	2 knew	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 remember	obj
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 were	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 remember	ccomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 were	nsubj
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 descended	advcl
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 more	amod
22	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 great	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 more	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 descended	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 descended	cc
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 descended	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 descended	nsubj
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 descended	aux:pass
30	descended	descend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 a	acl
31	from	from	ADP	_	33 family	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 family	det
33	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 descended	obl
34	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 family	acl:relcl
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 lands	case
37	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 lands	amod
38	lands	land	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 came	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 planted	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 planted	cc
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 planted	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 forest	det
43	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 forest	amod
44	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 planted	nsubj:pass
45	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 planted	aux
46	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	47 planted	aux:pass
47	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 descended	conj
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 them	case
49	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 planted	obl
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 theirs	cc
51	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 them	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	past	snails = snail	snails = snail				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is	past	snails = snail				old property	tree rules
3	remember	could	snails = snail			time		vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	be	past	a		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	descend	past · passive		snails = snail	a family			vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
6	come	past	a family		foreign lands			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from land=Initial_Location
7	plant	past · perfect · passive		the whole forest			for 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: «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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