The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 75

There the Tin-soldier lay, and felt a heat that was truly terrible; but whether he was suffering from actual fire, or from the ardour of his passion, he did not know.

Who acts: soldier lay, heat, lay · What happens: feel, be, suffer, not know · To what, where: heat, actual 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 (soldier lay, heat, lay), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	9 felt	expl
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lay	det
3	Tin	tin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 soldier	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 Tin	punct
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lay	compound
6	lay	lay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 felt	cc
9	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 heat	det
11	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 felt	obj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 terrible	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 terrible	cop
14	truly	truly	ADV	_	15 terrible	advmod
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 heat	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 suffering	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 suffering	cc
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	21 suffering	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 suffering	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 suffering	aux
21	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 felt	conj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 fire	case
23	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fire	amod
24	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 suffering	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ardour	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 ardour	cc
27	from	from	ADP	_	29 ardour	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ardour	det
29	ardour	ardour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 suffering	parataxis
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 passion	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 passion	nmod:poss
32	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ardour	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 know	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
35	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 know	aux
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 know	advmod
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 felt	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	feel	past	the soldier lay	a heat	there		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
2	is	past	a heat			terrible, truly property	tree rules
3	suffer	past · progressive	lay		actual fire		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	not know	past · do-support	lay				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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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