Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Wild Swans, part 2, sentence 37

But the sister and brothers sat holding each other's hands, and singing hymns, from which they gained hope and courage.

Who acts: sister, brothers · What happens: sit, hold, sing, gain · To what, where: hands, hymns, hope

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Wild Swans, 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 (sister, brothers), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 sat	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sister	det
3	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sat	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 brothers	cc
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sister	conj
6	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 other	det
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hands	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 other	case
11	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 holding	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 singing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 singing	cc
14	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 sat	advcl
15	hymns	hymn	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 singing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gained	punct
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 gained	obl
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 gained	nsubj
20	gained	gain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 singing	conj
21	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gained	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 courage	cc
23	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hope	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	sit	past	the sister and brothers		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hold	gerund	the sister and brothers not said here	each other's hands	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund	the sister and brothers not said here	hymns	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hymn=Theme
4	gain	past	brothers = brother	hope and courage	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hope=Theme from which=Source

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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