The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 46

Few of you who had not seen a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry will be able to imagine at all what the hunt was like.

Who acts: Few, hunt · What happens: not see, be, imagine · To what, where: pack, all

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 (Few, hunt), 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	Few	few	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 able	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 you	case
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 Few	nmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 seen	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 seen	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 seen	advmod
7	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	1 Few	acl:relcl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 pack	det
9	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 seen	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 hippopotamuses	case
11	hippopotamuses	hippopotamus	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pack	nmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 cry	case
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cry	amod
14	cry	cry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hippopotamuses	nmod
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 able	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	cop
17	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
18	to	to	PART	_	19 imagine	mark
19	imagine	imagine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 able	xcomp
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 all	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 imagine	obj
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 like	obj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 hunt	det
24	hunt	hunt	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 like	nsubj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 like	cop
26	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 all	amod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not see	past · perfect	Few of you	a pack of hippopotamuses in full cry		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pack=Stimulus
2	is	future	Few of you		able property	tree rules
3	imagine	to-infinitive	Few of you not said here	all		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot all=Theme
4	is	past	the hunt		like 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 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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