Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Twenty-second Evening, sentence 6

Two of the sisters stood up in the tower tolling the bell; they were both young, and therefore their glances flew over the mountain out into the world.

Who acts: Two sisters, tower, sisters, glances · What happens: stand up, toll, be, fly, glance · To what, where: tower, bell, mountain

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Twenty-second Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two sisters, tower, sisters, glances), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 sisters	nummod
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 sisters	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sisters	det
4	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 stood	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 tower	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tower	det
9	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
10	tolling	toll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 tower	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bell	det
12	bell	bell	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tolling	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 young	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 young	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 young	cop
16	both	both	ADV	_	17 young	advmod
17	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 stood	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 flew	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 flew	cc
20	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	23 flew	advmod
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 glances	nmod:poss
22	glances	glance	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 flew	nsubj
23	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stood	parataxis
24	over	over	ADP	_	26 mountain	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 mountain	det
26	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	obl
27	out	out	ADV	_	23 flew	advmod
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 flew	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand up	past	the Two sisters		the tower		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location
2	toll	gerund	the tower not said here	the bell			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme
3	is	past	sisters = sister			both, young property	tree rules
4	fly	past	sisters's glances		the mountain	into the world; out, therefore property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over mountain=Location
5	glance		sisters = sister				nom glance «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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