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title: The whirlpool is too strong for him to be able to get out of it, so… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: The whirlpool is too strong for him to be able to get out of it, so there he spins around and around forever and ever, doing some useful work at last, and warming the water for poor fisher-folk to shave with. Who acts: whirlpool. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon], w
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# The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon\], sentence 265

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The whirlpool is too strong for him to be able to get out of it, so there he spins around and around forever and ever, doing some useful work at last, and warming the water for poor fisher-folk to shave with.

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**Who acts:** whirlpool · **What happens:** be, get out, spin, do, warm, shave · **To what, where:** water, useful work, last

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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 (whirlpool), 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:pg23661:13:265
# text = The whirlpool is too strong for him to be able to get out of it, so there he spins around and around forever and ever, doing some useful work at last, and warming the water for poor fisher-folk to shave with.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	whirlpool	whirlpool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	out	out	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	spins	spin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	around	around	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	around	around	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	useful	useful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	warming	warm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
41	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
44	to	to	PART	TO	_	45	mark	_	_
45	shave	shave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the whirlpool |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | to-infinitive | whirlpool |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **get out** | to-infinitive | whirlpool *not said here* | water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spin** | present | whirlpool |  |  | there |  | around, forever *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | whirlpool *not said here* | some useful work |  | last |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 6 | **warm** | gerund | whirlpool *not said here* | the water |  |  |  | for poor fisher folk | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 7 | **shave** | to-infinitive | whirlpool *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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