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title: Yet often, in the evening hours, the five sisters would twine their… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid, part 1, sentence 62

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

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

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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.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg27200:75:62
# text = Yet often, in the evening hours, the five sisters would twine their arms round each other, and rise to the surface, in a row.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	often	often	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
12	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	twine	twine	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	parataxis	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	13	obl	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	rise	rise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	surface	surface	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	row	row	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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.

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**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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