Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 62

Yet often, in the evening hours, the five sisters would twine their arms round each other, and rise to the surface, in a row.

Who acts: five sisters · What happens: twine, rise · To what, where: arms, row

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 (five sisters), 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	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	7 hours	cc
2	often	often	ADV	_	7 hours	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hours	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 hours	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hours	det
6	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hours	compound
7	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 twine	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sisters	det
10	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 sisters	nummod
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 twine	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 twine	aux
13	twine	twine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 hours	parataxis
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 arms	nmod:poss
15	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 twine	obj
16	round	round	ADV	_	17 each	advmod
17	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	13 twine	obl
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 each	fixed
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 rise	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 rise	cc
21	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 twine	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 surface	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 surface	det
24	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rise	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 row	punct
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 row	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 row	det
28	row	row	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rise	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 hours	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twine	would	the five sisters	sisters's arms				each obl	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent arm=Theme
2	rise	infinitive	the five sisters not said here			a row		to the surface	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in row=Location

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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