--- title: You have no idea how cold it was--the kind of cold that makes you fe… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: You have no idea how cold it was--the kind of cold that makes you feel small and prickly inside your clothes, and makes you wish you had twenty times as many clothes to feel small and prickly inside of. Who acts: You, idea, kind. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8, wit --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/108/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/) / 108 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 108 You have no idea how cold it was--the kind of cold that makes you feel small and prickly inside your clothes, and makes you wish you had twenty times as many clothes to feel small and prickly inside of. **Who acts:** You, idea, kind · **What happens:** have, be, make, feel, wish · **To what, where:** idea, you, many clothes · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, idea, kind), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:8:108 # text = You have no idea how cold it was--the kind of cold that makes you feel small and prickly inside your clothes, and makes you wish you had twenty times as many clothes to feel small and prickly inside of. 1 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 4 det _ _ 4 idea idea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 ccomp _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 appos _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 15 nsubj _ _ 15 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ _ 18 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 xcomp _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 conj _ _ 21 inside inside ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 27 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 ccomp _ _ 29 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 31 twenty twenty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obl:unmarked _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 34 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 30 obj _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl _ _ 38 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 xcomp _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 prickly prickly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 conj _ _ 41 inside inside ADP IN _ 40 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 41 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | You | no idea | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | idea | | | | | cold *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | present | the kind of cold | you | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **feel** | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 5 | **make** | present | | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wish** | present | you | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 7 | **have** | past | you | many clothes | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | | 8 | **feel** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | many clothes *not said here* | | | | small *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/107/) - next →: [sentence 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/109/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/)