The Yellow Fairy Book, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25), sentence 41
The Fire-son was delighted, but the perpetual heat in which he lived made his body so hot, that it was dangerous to go too close to him.
Who acts: Fire son, heat, perpetual heat, it · What happens: be, live, make, go · To what, where: perpetual heat, body
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son(25). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fire son, heat, perpetual heat, it), 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 | 4 son | det |
| 2 | Fire | Fire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 son | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fire | punct |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 delighted | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | cop |
| 6 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 heat | det |
| 10 | perpetual | perpetual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 heat | amod |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 lived | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lived | nsubj |
| 15 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 heat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 delighted | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 body | nmod:poss |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 hot | advmod |
| 20 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 made | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dangerous | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 dangerous | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dangerous | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dangerous | cop |
| 25 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 delighted | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 go | mark |
| 27 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 dangerous | csubj |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 close | advmod |
| 29 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 go | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 close | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Fire son | delighted property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | heat | the perpetual heat | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the perpetual heat | heat's body | hot property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset body=Product | |||
| 4 | is | past | it | dangerous property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | to-infinitive | close property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: 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: «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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