The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 263

They could see nothing of him; but when they looked out toward the whirlpool they saw a cloud of steam; and the fishermen reported that the water for miles around was hot enough to shave with!

Who acts: people, fishermen, water · What happens: see, look out, report, be, shave, cloud · To what, where: nothing, cloud, steam

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, fishermen, water), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 see	aux
3	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 see	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nothing	nmod
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 looked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 looked	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 looked	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 looked	nsubj
11	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	advcl
12	out	out	ADP	_	11 looked	compound:prt
13	toward	toward	ADP	_	15 whirlpool	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 whirlpool	det
15	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 looked	obl
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 saw	nsubj
17	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 whirlpool	acl:relcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 cloud	det
19	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 saw	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 steam	case
21	steam	steam	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 cloud	nmod
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 reported	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 reported	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 fishermen	det
25	fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 reported	nsubj
26	reported	report	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 see	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 hot	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hot	nsubj
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 miles	case
31	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 water	nmod
32	around	around	ADV	_	29 water	advmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 hot	cop
34	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reported	ccomp
35	enough	enough	ADV	_	34 hot	advmod
36	to	to	PART	_	37 shave	mark
37	shave	shave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 hot	advcl
38	with	with	ADP	_	37 shave	obl
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	could	people	nothing		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
2	look out	past	people		toward the whirlpool	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	see	past	people	a cloud of steam		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cloud=Stimulus
4	report	past	the fishermen			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the water for miles		enough, hot property	tree rules
6	shave	to-infinitive	the water for miles not said here			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	cloud			steam		nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=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 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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