Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 131

Then he would keep his wedding-day with Tiny; but now the heat of the sun was so great that it burned the earth, and made it quite hard, like a stone.

Who acts: mouse, heat, sun · What happens: keep, be, burn, make, heat · To what, where: earth, heat

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mouse, heat, sun), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 keep	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 keep	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 keep	aux
4	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 day	nmod:poss
6	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 day	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 wedding	punct
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 keep	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 Tiny	case
10	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 great	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 great	cc
13	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 great	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heat	det
15	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 great	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 sun	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 sun	det
18	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heat	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 great	cop
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 great	advmod
21	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 keep	conj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 burned	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 burned	nsubj
24	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 great	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 earth	det
26	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 burned	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 burned	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 made	obj
31	quite	quite	ADV	_	32 hard	advmod
32	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 made	advmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 stone	punct
34	like	like	ADP	_	36 stone	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 stone	det
36	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 keep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	keep	would	mouse		then; day	with Tiny	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the heat of the sun		now	great property	tree rules
3	burn	past	heat	the earth			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent earth=Theme
4	make	past	heat not said here	heat		like a stone; hard property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
5	heat		the sun				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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