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description: 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. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23, with its dependency tree and th
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 13

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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.

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**Who acts:** dragon, cave, you · **What happens:** breathe, burn up, be, catch · **To what, where:** fire, you, water, some, little bottle

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:23:13
# text = 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.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	breathing	breathe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	up	up	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	only	only	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
23	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	bottle	bottle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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