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title: In this spot the poor sick boy would sit warming himself in the suns… — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Angel, with its dependency tr
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# Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Angel, sentence 21

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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.

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

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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.

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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:pg27200:4:21
# text = 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.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
10	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	obj	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	fingers	finger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | 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 |

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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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