The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 139
This is a heat that will melt the marrow in your bones--a heat that is only to be felt in the kingdom of the Goddess of Thunder.’
Who acts: This, heat · What happens: be, melt · To what, where: heat, marrow, bones, kingdom
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 heat | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 heat | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heat | det |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 melt | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 melt | aux |
| 7 | melt | melt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 heat | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 marrow | det |
| 9 | marrow | marrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melt | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bones | case |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bones | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 melt | obl |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 heat | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 heat | det |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 melt | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 felt | obj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 felt | cop |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 felt | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 felt | mark |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 felt | aux:pass |
| 21 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 heat | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kingdom | det |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 felt | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Goddess | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Goddess | det |
| 27 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 kingdom | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Thunder | case |
| 29 | Thunder | Thunder | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Goddess | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 heat | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 heat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a heat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | melt | future | a heat | the marrow | your bones | a heat obl | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient marrow=Result | ||
| 3 | is | present · passive | a heat not said here | the kingdom of the Goddess of Thunder | feel property | tree rules |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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