Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew, sentence 62

It was a terrible ordeal, and they had, moreover, made such a fire in the stove, that the room seemed quite red hot.

Who acts: ceiling, boards, room · What happens: be, have, make, seem · To what, where: terrible ordeal, fire, stove

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, An Old Story Told Anew. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ceiling, boards, room), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ordeal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ordeal	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 ordeal	det
4	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ordeal	amod
5	ordeal	ordeal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ordeal	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
11	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	13 made	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 made	punct
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 had	parataxis
14	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	16 fire	det:predet
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fire	det
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 stove	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stove	det
19	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 seemed	punct
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 seemed	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 room	det
23	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 seemed	nsubj
24	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 made	conj
25	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 hot	advmod
26	red	red	ADV	_	27 hot	advmod
27	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 seemed	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 ordeal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	ceiling	a terrible ordeal			tree rules
2	have	past	boards = board				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	make	past		such fire	the stove	moreover property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product
4	seem	past	the room			hot property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme

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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