The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 9, sentence 25

Then, when it was so cold that it could not manage to be any colder without breaking the thermometer, it stopped.

Who acts: dragon · What happens: be, not manage, not be, break, stop · To what, where: thermometer

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 cold	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 cold	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cold	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cold	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 cold	advmod
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 manage	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 manage	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 manage	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 manage	advmod
12	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cold	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	16 colder	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 colder	cop
15	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 colder	det
16	colder	cold	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 manage	xcomp
17	without	without	SCONJ	_	18 breaking	mark
18	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 stopped	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thermometer	det
20	thermometer	thermometer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breaking	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 breaking	punct
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 stopped	nsubj
23	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 colder	conj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dragon		then	cold property	tree rules
2	not manage	could	dragon				vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not is	to-infinitive	dragon not said here			cold property	tree rules
4	break	gerund	dragon not said here	the thermometer			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thermometer=Patient
5	stop	past	dragon				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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