The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 109

John fastened the dragon up with the collar and the chains, and when he had padlocked them all on safely he set to work to find out how many rivets would be needed.

Who acts: John · What happens: fasten up, padlock, set, work, find out, need · To what, where: dragon, chains, many rivets · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	nsubj
2	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	2 fastened	compound:prt
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 collar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 collar	det
8	collar	collar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fastened	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 chains	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 chains	det
11	chains	chain	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 collar	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 padlocked	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 padlocked	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 padlocked	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 padlocked	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 padlocked	aux
17	padlocked	padlock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fastened	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 padlocked	obj
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 them	nmod:unmarked
20	on	on	SCONJ	_	23 set	mark
21	safely	safely	ADV	_	23 set	advmod
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 set	nsubj
23	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 padlocked	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 work	mark
25	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 set	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 find	mark
27	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 work	advcl
28	out	out	ADP	_	27 find	compound:prt
29	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 many	advmod
30	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rivets	amod
31	rivets	rivet	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 needed	nsubj:pass
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 needed	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 needed	aux:pass
34	needed	need	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 find	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fastened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fasten up	past	John	the dragon	with the collar and the chains	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent dragon=Patient with collar=Co-Patient
2	padlock	past · perfect	John	chains = chain		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
3	set	past	John		safely property	tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	John not said here			vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find out	to-infinitive	John not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	need	would · passive		many rivets		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme

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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