The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

How faint those fires did make me feel!"

Who acts: faint fires, me · What happens: make, feel · To what, where: me

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (faint fires, me), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 faint	advmod
2	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fires	amod
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	4 fires	det
4	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 make	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 make	aux
6	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 make	obj
8	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 make	xcomp
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 make	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	that faint fires	me					tree rules
2	feel	infinitive	me not said here						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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