Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Ib and Little Christina, sentence 8

Little Ib, a boy of seven years old and the only child, would sit by, watching the workmen, or cutting a stick, and sometimes his finger instead of the stick.

What happens: sit by, watch, cut · To what, where: workmen, stick

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Ib and Little Christina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	Little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Ib	amod
2	Ib	Ib	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 boy	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 boy	det
5	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ib	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 years	case
7	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 years	nummod
8	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 old	obl:unmarked
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boy	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 child	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 child	det
12	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 child	amod
13	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 boy	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sit	punct
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 sit	aux
16	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Ib	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	16 sit	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 watching	punct
19	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sit	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 workmen	det
21	workmen	workman	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 watching	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 cutting	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 cutting	cc
24	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 sit	advcl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 stick	det
26	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 finger	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 finger	cc
29	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 finger	advmod
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 finger	nmod:poss
31	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obl
32	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	35 stick	case
33	of	of	ADP	_	32 instead	fixed
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 stick	det
35	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 cutting	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Ib	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sit by	would			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	watch	gerund	the workmen		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent workman=Theme
3	cut	gerund	a stick	instead the stick; Jeppe's finger obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stick=Product

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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