Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Juniper-tree, sentence 126

‘I feel as if the whole house were in flames!’

Who acts: I · What happens: feel, be · To what, where: flames

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, The Juniper-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	8 house	case
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 house	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 house	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 house	amod
8	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	obl
9	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	conj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 flames	case
11	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 were	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I					as the whole house	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent as house=Theme
2	be	past	I not said here			flames			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in flame=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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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