Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, First Evening, sentence 6
I could see the blood in her delicate finger tips, as she spread them for a screen before the dancing flame.
Who acts: I, thought · What happens: see, spread · To what, where: blood, delicate finger tips, tips, dancing flame
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, First Evening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thought), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 2 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | aux |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 blood | det |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 see | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tips | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 tips | nmod:poss |
| 8 | delicate | delicate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 tips | amod |
| 9 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tips | compound |
| 10 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 see | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spread | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 spread | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spread | nsubj |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spread | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 screen | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 screen | det |
| 18 | screen | screen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obl |
| 19 | before | before | ADP | _ | 22 flame | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 flame | det |
| 21 | dancing | dancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 flame | compound |
| 22 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | could | I | the blood | thought's delicate finger tips | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | spread | past | thought | tips = tip | the dancing flame | for a screen | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme before flame=Destination |
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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