Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 21

In this spot the poor sick boy would sit warming himself in the sunshine, and watching the red blood through his delicate fingers as he held them before his face.

Who acts: poor sick boy, boy · What happens: sit, warm, watch, hold · To what, where: spot, boy, sunshine, red blood, delicate fingers, fingers

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor sick boy, boy), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 spot	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 spot	det
3	spot	spot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 boy	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
6	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 boy	amod
7	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sit	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 sit	aux
9	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	warming	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 sit	obj
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 warming	obj
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 sunshine	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sunshine	det
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 warming	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 watching	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 watching	cc
17	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 warming	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 blood	det
19	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 blood	amod
20	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 watching	obj
21	through	through	ADP	_	24 fingers	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fingers	nmod:poss
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fingers	amod
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 watching	obl
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 held	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	nsubj
27	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 watching	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 held	obj
29	before	before	ADP	_	31 face	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 face	nmod:poss
31	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 held	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	sit	would	the poor sick boy		this spot	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in spot=Location
2	warm	gerund		boy	the sunshine	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
3	watch	gerund		the red blood	boy's delicate fingers	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Theme
4	hold	past	boy	fingers = finger	boy's face	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Theme before face=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/4/21/