The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 13
If he is breathing fire you will be burned up, but if it is only water, you will easily be able to catch some in a little bottle.
Who acts: dragon, cave, you · What happens: breathe, burn up, be, catch · To what, where: fire, you, water, some, little bottle
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, cave, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 breathing | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 breathing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 breathing | aux |
| 4 | breathing | breathe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 burned | advcl |
| 5 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 breathing | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 burned | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 burned | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 burned | aux:pass |
| 9 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 burned | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 able | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 able | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 water | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 water | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 water | cop |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 water | advmod |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 able | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 water | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | aux |
| 21 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 23 able | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 burned | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 catch | mark |
| 25 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 catch | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 bottle | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bottle | det |
| 29 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bottle | amod |
| 30 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 catch | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe a condition, not said to happen | present · progressive | dragon | fire | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | burn up | future · passive | you | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | cave | water | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | future | you | able, easily property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | catch | to-infinitive | you not said here | some | a little bottle | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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