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title: And as the water is hot there to this day, we may feel pretty sure t… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the water is hot there to this day, we may feel pretty sure that the fierceness of that dragon was such that all the waters of all the sea were not enough to cool him. Who acts: water, we, fierceness, waters. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], with its depend
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 264

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And as the water is hot there to this day, we may feel pretty sure that the fierceness of that dragon was such that all the waters of all the sea were not enough to cool him.

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**Who acts:** water, we, fierceness, waters · **What happens:** be, feel, not be, cool · **To what, where:** sea

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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 (water, we, fierceness, waters), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:13:264
# text = And as the water is hot there to this day, we may feel pretty sure that the fierceness of that dragon was such that all the waters of all the sea were not enough to cool him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
7	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
12	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	pretty	pretty	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	fierceness	fierceness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	35	advcl	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	32	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	cool	cool	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the water |  |  | there | day | hot *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feel** | may | we |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **is** | past | the fierceness of that dragon |  |  |  |  | such *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is** | past | all waters of all sea |  |  |  |  | enough *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **cool** | to-infinitive | all waters of all sea *not said here* | sea |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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.

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**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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