The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 265
The whirlpool is too strong for him to be able to get out of it, so there he spins around and around forever and ever, doing some useful work at last, and warming the water for poor fisher-folk to shave with.
Who acts: whirlpool · What happens: be, get out, spin, do, warm, shave · To what, where: water, useful work, last
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 (whirlpool), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 whirlpool | det |
| 2 | whirlpool | whirlpool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 strong | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | cop |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 strong | advmod |
| 5 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 able | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 able | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | cop |
| 10 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strong | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 able | xcomp |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spins | punct |
| 17 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 there | advmod |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 spins | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 spins | nsubj |
| 20 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 strong | conj |
| 21 | around | around | ADV | _ | 20 spins | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 around | cc |
| 23 | around | around | ADV | _ | 21 around | conj |
| 24 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 20 spins | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ever | cc |
| 26 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 24 forever | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 doing | punct |
| 28 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 spins | advcl |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 work | det |
| 30 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 work | amod |
| 31 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 doing | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 last | case |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 doing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 warming | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 warming | cc |
| 36 | warming | warm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 doing | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 water | det |
| 38 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 warming | obj |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 folk | case |
| 40 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 folk | amod |
| 41 | fisher | fisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 folk | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 fisher | punct |
| 43 | folk | folk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 warming | obl |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 shave | mark |
| 45 | shave | shave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 warming | advcl |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 shave | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the whirlpool | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | whirlpool | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | get out | to-infinitive | whirlpool not said here | water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | spin | present | whirlpool | there | around, forever property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | do | gerund | whirlpool not said here | some useful work | last | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | warm | gerund | whirlpool not said here | the water | for poor fisher folk | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | |||
| 7 | shave | to-infinitive | whirlpool not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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