Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 5

Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds fly among the trees here upon land.

Who acts: birds · What happens: glide, fly · To what, where: branches, trees

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (birds), 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	Fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 large	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct
3	both	both	CCONJ	_	4 large	cc:preconj
4	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 small	cc
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 large	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 glide	punct
8	glide	glide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 large	parataxis
9	between	between	ADP	_	11 branches	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 branches	det
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 glide	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 fly	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 fly	mark
14	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fly	nsubj
15	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 glide	conj
16	among	among	ADP	_	18 trees	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 trees	det
18	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 fly	obl
19	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 fly	advmod
20	upon	upon	ADP	_	21 land	case
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fly	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 large	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	infinitive				the branches			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between branch=Trajectory
2	fly	present	birds			the trees; here		upon land	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent among tree=Location

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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