The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 37

Well, the only thing would be ... dragons can't stand wet and cold, that's the only thing.

Who acts: dragons, only thing, that · What happens: not stand, be · To what, where: only thing

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragons, only thing, that), 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	Well	well	INTJ	_	13 wet	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Well	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thing	det
4	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thing	amod
5	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wet	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wet	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wet	cop
8	...	...	PUNCT	_	12 stand	punct
9	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 stand	nsubj
10	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 stand	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 stand	advmod
12	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wet	compound
13	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cold	cc
15	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wet	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 thing	punct
17	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 thing	nsubj
18	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 thing	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 thing	det
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 thing	amod
21	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wet	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not stand	can	dragons			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	the only thing		wet property	tree rules
3	be		the only thing not said here			tree rules
4	is a	present	that	the only thing		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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