Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure, sentence 87

Their brother who is taller than they are, stands in the swing; he has one arm round the rope, to steady himself; in one hand he holds a little bowl, and in the other a clay pipe; he is blowing bubbles.

Who acts: brother, ribbons · What happens: be, stand, have, hold, blow · To what, where: swing, one arm, little bowl, one hand, bubbles

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flower Garden of the Woman Who Could Conjure. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother, ribbons), 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	10 stands	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 taller	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	cop
5	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 brother	amod
6	than	than	SCONJ	_	8 are	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 are	nsubj
8	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taller	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 brother	punct
10	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 swing	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 swing	det
13	swing	swing	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 stands	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 stands	parataxis
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 arm	nummod
18	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 rope	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 rope	det
21	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 arm	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 steady	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 steady	mark
24	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 has	advcl
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 steady	nsubj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 holds	punct
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 hand	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 hand	nummod
29	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holds	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 holds	nsubj
31	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 has	conj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bowl	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bowl	amod
34	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 holds	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 other	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 other	cc
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 other	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 other	det
39	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 holds	obl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 pipe	det
41	clay	clay	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pipe	compound
42	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 other	nsubj
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 blowing	punct
44	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 blowing	nsubj
45	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 blowing	aux
46	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 stands	advcl
47	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 blowing	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 stands	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	ribbons's brother			tall property	tree rules
2	does	present	ribbons = ribbon				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stand	present	ribbons's brother		the swing		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in swing=Location
4	have	present	brother	one arm		round the rope	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient
5	hold	present	brother	a little bowl	one hand	in the other	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bowl=Theme in hand=Location
6	blow	present · progressive	brother	bubbles			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bubble=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: «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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