Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier, sentence 70

The flames lighted up the tin soldier, as he stood, the heat was very terrible, but whether it proceeded from the real fire or from the fire of love he could not tell.

Who acts: flames, heat, boy · What happens: light up, stand, be, proceed, not tell, fire · To what, where: flames, real fire, love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Brave Tin Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flames, heat, boy), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 flames	det
2	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stood	nsubj
3	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flames	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 lighted	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 soldier	det
6	tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 soldier	compound
7	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lighted	obl:agent
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 stood	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stood	nsubj
11	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 terrible	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 heat	det
14	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 terrible	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 terrible	cop
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 terrible	advmod
17	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 stood	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 proceeded	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 proceeded	cc
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 proceeded	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 proceeded	nsubj
22	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stood	conj
23	from	from	ADP	_	26 fire	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 fire	det
25	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 fire	amod
26	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 proceeded	obl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 fire	cc
28	from	from	ADP	_	30 fire	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 fire	det
30	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 fire	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 love	case
32	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 fire	nmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 tell	nsubj
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 tell	aux
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 tell	advmod
36	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 proceeded	acl:relcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	light up	participle		the flames not said here			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	stand	past	the flames				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	the heat			terrible property	tree rules
4	proceed	past	heat		the real fire or the fire of love		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	not tell speech: assert	could	boy				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	fire			love			nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient

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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