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title: They fly far and wide, in rain and sunshine; they know the whole for… — Andersen's Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: They fly far and wide, in rain and sunshine; they know the whole forest here, both within and without.” Who acts: gnats. A sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Happy Family, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Happy Family, sentence 45

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

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

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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.

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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:pg1597:20:45
# text = They fly far and wide, in rain and sunshine; they know the whole forest here, both within and without.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc:preconj	_	_
20	within	within	ADP	IN	_	13	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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