Andersen's Fairy Tales, The Snow Queen, part 2, sentence 92

Their brother, who is older than they are, stands up in the swing; he twines his arms round the cords to hold himself fast, for in one hand he has a little cup, and in the other a clay-pipe.

Who acts: brother, trees · What happens: be, stand up, twine, hold, have · To what, where: swing, arms, cords, brother, little cup

This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The Snow Queen, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, trees), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 brother	nmod:poss
2	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 older	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 older	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 older	cop
6	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 brother	acl:relcl
7	than	than	SCONJ	_	9 are	mark
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 are	nsubj
9	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 older	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
11	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 stands	compound:prt
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 swing	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 swing	det
15	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stands	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 twines	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 twines	nsubj
18	twines	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 stands	conj
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 arms	nmod:poss
20	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 twines	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 cords	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 cords	det
23	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 twines	obl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 hold	mark
25	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 twines	advcl
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 hold	obj
27	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 hold	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 has	punct
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 hand	case
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 hand	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 hand	nummod
32	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 has	nsubj
34	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 twines	conj
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 cup	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 cup	amod
37	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 has	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 other	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 other	cc
40	in	in	ADP	_	42 other	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 other	det
42	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stands	parataxis
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 pipe	det
44	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 pipe	compound
45	-	-	PUNCT	_	44 clay	punct
46	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 other	obl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	trees's brother			old property	tree rules
2	does	present	trees = tree				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand up	present	trees's brother		the swing		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in swing=Location
4	twine	present	brother	brother's arms	the cords		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme round cord=Destination
5	hold	to-infinitive	brother not said here	brother		fast property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
6	have	present	brother	a little cup		for one hand	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cup=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: «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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