The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 10, sentence 67

He dared not go very near till daylight should show him what, indeed, were the whirlpools he had to dread.

Who acts: Nigel, daylight, whirlpools · What happens: go, show, be, have, dread · To what, where: Nigel, whirlpools

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nigel, daylight, whirlpools), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
2	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 dared	advmod
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 near	advmod
6	near	near	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	10 show	mark
8	daylight	daylight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 show	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 show	aux
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 go	advcl
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 show	iobj
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 show	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
14	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	10 show	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 whirlpools	punct
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 whirlpools	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 whirlpools	det
18	whirlpools	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 go	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 whirlpools	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 dread	mark
22	dread	dread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 go	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	Nigel			near property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	show	should	daylight		Nigel	indeed property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic
3	is a	past		the whirlpools			tree rules
4	have	past	Nigel	the whirlpools not said here			tree rules
5	dread	to-infinitive	the whirlpools not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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 Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (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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