--- title: When the sisters rose, arm-in-arm, through the water in this way, th… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics description: When the sisters rose, arm-in-arm, through the water in this way, their youngest sister would stand quite alone, looking after them, ready to cry, only that the mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more. " Who acts: sisters, youngest sister, mermaids. 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" **Who acts:** sisters, youngest sister, mermaids · **What happens:** rise, stand, look, cry, have, suffer · **To what, where:** arm, tears, more 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 (sisters, youngest sister, mermaids), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg27200:75:66 # text = When the sisters rose, arm-in-arm, through the water in this way, their youngest sister would stand quite alone, looking after them, ready to cry, only that the mermaids have no tears, and therefore they suffer more. " 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 sisters sister NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 6 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 arm arm NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 through through ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 17 det _ _ 17 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 20 youngest young ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 21 amod _ _ 21 sister sister NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 24 quite quite ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 alone alone ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 looking look VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 cry cry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 mermaids mermaid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nsubj _ _ 39 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 advcl _ _ 40 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 41 det _ _ 41 tears tear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 45 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 46 nsubj _ _ 46 suffer suffer VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 47 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 46 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 46 punct _ _ 49 " " PUNCT '' _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | the sisters | | | arm | | through the water; in this way | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in arm=Location | | 2 | **stand** | would | arms's youngest sister | | | | | alone *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **look** | gerund | arms's youngest sister *not said here* | | | | after sisters *= sister* | | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | to-infinitive | arms's youngest sister *not said here* | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **have** | present | the mermaids | no tears | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tear=Patient | | 6 | **suffer** | present | sisters *= sister* | more | | | | therefore *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/75/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/75/67/) - ↑ back to [The Little Mermaid, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/75/)