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title: Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds f… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds fly among the trees here upon land. Who acts: birds. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 5

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

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:75:5
# text = Fishes, both large and small, glide between the branches, as birds fly among the trees here upon land.
1	Fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc:preconj	_	_
4	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	glide	glide	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	among	among	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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