The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 92

The storm had already lasted many days when tremendous heat began to make itself felt.

Who acts: storm, tremendous heat, heat · What happens: last, begin, make, feel

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (storm, tremendous heat, heat), 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 storm	det
2	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lasted	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lasted	aux
4	already	already	ADV	_	5 lasted	advmod
5	lasted	last	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 lasted	obl:unmarked
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 began	advmod
9	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heat	amod
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 began	nsubj
11	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lasted	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 make	mark
13	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 began	xcomp
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 felt	nsubj
15	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 make	ccomp
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 lasted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	last	past · perfect	the storm	day	vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
2	begin	past	tremendous heat		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	make	to-infinitive	tremendous heat not said here		tree rules
4	feel	past	heat		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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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