The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 144
It was fearful, and they had made up the fire so hot that it was grilling.
Who acts: ceiling, reporters · What happens: be, make up, grill · To what, where: fire
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast 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 (ceiling, reporters), 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 | 3 fearful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fearful | cop |
| 3 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 made | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 made | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 fearful | parataxis |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 made | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fire | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 hot | advmod |
| 13 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 made | xcomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 grilling | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 grilling | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 grilling | aux |
| 17 | grilling | grill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 hot | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fearful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | ceiling | fearful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make up | past · perfect | reporters = reporter | the fire | hot property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fire=Pivot | |||
| 3 | grill | past · progressive | ceiling | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=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: «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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