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title: In the evening, when the gnats were playing about in the warm air an… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: In the evening, when the gnats were playing about in the warm air and in the red clouds, the nightingale came and sang to the roses that the beautiful was like sunshine to the world, and that the beautiful lived for ever. Who acts: gnats, nightingale, that. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christi
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Neighbouring Families, sentence 46

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In the evening, when the gnats were playing about in the warm air and in the red clouds, the nightingale came and sang to the roses that the beautiful was like sunshine to the world, and that the beautiful lived for ever.

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**Who acts:** gnats, nightingale, that · **What happens:** play about, come, sing, be, live · **To what, where:** warm air, roses

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This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Neighbouring Families. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gnats, nightingale, that), 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:pg27200:124:46
# text = In the evening, when the gnats were playing about in the warm air and in the red clouds, the nightingale came and sang to the roses that the beautiful was like sunshine to the world, and that the beautiful lived for ever.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gnats	gnat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	playing	play	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	roses	rose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	advcl	_	_
43	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play about** | past · progressive | the gnats |  |  | the warm air and the red clouds |  | about *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | the nightingale |  |  |  | evening |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | the nightingale *not said here* |  | the roses |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to rose=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past | that |  |  |  |  | beautiful *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **live** | past | the nightingale *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:** «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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