The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 108

Then John rummaged among the heap of old iron and found there some heavy chains and a great collar that had been made in the days when men sang over their work and put their hearts into it, so that the things they made were strong enough to bear the weight of a thousand years, let alone a dragon.

Who acts: John, men, things, chains · What happens: rummage, find, make, sing, put, be · To what, where: heap, heavy chains, great collar, work, hearts, heart

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (John, men, things, chains), 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rummaged	advmod
2	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rummaged	nsubj
3	rummaged	rummage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	among	among	ADP	_	6 heap	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 heap	det
6	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rummaged	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 iron	case
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 iron	amod
9	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heap	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 found	cc
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rummaged	conj
12	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 found	advmod
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 chains	det
14	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 chains	amod
15	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 found	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 collar	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 collar	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 collar	amod
19	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 chains	conj
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 made	obl
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 made	aux:pass
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 collar	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 days	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 days	det
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	obl
27	when	when	SCONJ	_	29 sang	mark
28	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sang	nsubj
29	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 made	advcl
30	over	over	ADP	_	32 work	case
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 work	nmod:poss
32	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sang	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 put	cc
34	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 sang	conj
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 hearts	nmod:poss
36	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 put	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 it	case
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 put	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 strong	punct
40	so	so	SCONJ	_	47 strong	mark
41	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 strong	mark
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 things	det
43	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 strong	nsubj
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 made	nsubj
45	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 things	acl:relcl
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 strong	cop
47	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 found	parataxis
48	enough	enough	ADV	_	47 strong	advmod
49	to	to	PART	_	50 bear	mark
50	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 strong	advcl
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 weight	det
52	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 bear	obj
53	of	of	ADP	_	56 years	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 thousand	det
55	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	56 years	nummod
56	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 weight	nmod
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 let	punct
58	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 bear	conj
59	alone	alone	ADV	_	58 let	advmod
60	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	61 dragon	det
61	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 let	obj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rummaged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rummage	past	John		the heap of old iron	then		vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent among heap=Location
2	find	past	John not said here	some heavy chains and a great collar	there			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Topic
3	make	past · perfect · passive		a great collar		day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
4	sing speech: express	past	men		chains's work			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over work=Location
5	put	infinitive	men not said here	chains's hearts	heart			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent heart=Goal
6	make	past	things = thing	the things not said here				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset thing=Product
7	is	past	the things				enough, strong property	tree rules
8	bear	to-infinitive	the things not said here	the weight of thousand years				vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Patient
9	let	infinitive	the things not said here	a dragon			alone property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme
10	work		chains = chain					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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