The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 99

There they saw the dragons running all sorts of ways like ants if you are cruel enough to pour water into an ant-heap, which, of course, you never are.

Who acts: dragons, you · What happens: see, run, be, pour, not be, sort · To what, where: dragons, sorts, water, ant heap, ways

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, you), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 saw	expl
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dragons	det
5	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 saw	obj
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 dragons	acl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sorts	det
8	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 ways	case
10	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 sorts	nmod
11	like	like	ADP	_	12 ants	case
12	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 ways	nmod
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 cruel	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 cruel	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 cruel	cop
16	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saw	conj
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 cruel	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 pour	mark
19	pour	pour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 saw	advcl
20	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pour	obj
21	into	into	ADP	_	25 heap	case
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 heap	det
23	ant	ant	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 heap	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 ant	punct
25	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pour	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 are	punct
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 are	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 which	punct
29	of	of	ADP	ExtPos=ADV	27 which	advmod
30	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 of	fixed
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 which	punct
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 are	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	34 are	advmod
34	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 heap	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	dragons = dragon	the dragons	there		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer dragon=Stimulus
2	run	gerund	the dragons not said here	all sorts of ways like ants			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sort=Trajectory
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			cruel, enough property	tree rules
4	pour	to-infinitive	dragons = dragon not said here	water	a ant heap		vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into heap=Destination
5	not does	present	you	a ant heap			vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme
6	sort			ways like ants			nom sort «cognition 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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