The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 264

And as the water is hot there to this day, we may feel pretty sure that the fierceness of that dragon was such that all the waters of all the sea were not enough to cool him.

Who acts: water, we, fierceness, waters · What happens: be, feel, not be, cool · To what, where: sea

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 (water, we, fierceness, waters), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	14 feel	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 hot	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hot	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 hot	cop
6	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	advcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 hot	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 day	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hot	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hot	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 feel	nsubj
13	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 feel	aux
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	16 sure	advmod
16	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 feel	xcomp
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 such	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fierceness	det
19	fierceness	fierceness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 such	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 dragon	case
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 dragon	det
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fierceness	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 such	cop
24	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	35 enough	advcl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 enough	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 waters	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 waters	det
28	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 enough	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 sea	case
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 sea	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 sea	det
32	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 waters	nmod
33	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 enough	cop
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 enough	advmod
35	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sure	ccomp
36	to	to	PART	_	37 cool	mark
37	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 enough	advcl
38	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cool	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the water		there	day	hot property	tree rules
2	feel	may	we				sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	past	the fierceness of that dragon				such property	tree rules
4	not is	past	all waters of all sea				enough property	tree rules
5	cool	to-infinitive	all waters of all sea not said here	sea				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=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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