The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 166
So there was nothing for the blacksmith except the laurel wreath and the knowledge that it really was he who had saved the town.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: be, save · To what, where: third
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 (nothing), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 3 was | nsubj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 blacksmith | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blacksmith | det |
| 7 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | except | except | ADP | _ | 11 wreath | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wreath | det |
| 10 | laurel | laurel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wreath | compound |
| 11 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blacksmith | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 knowledge | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 knowledge | det |
| 14 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blacksmith | conj |
| 15 | that | that | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 knowledge | nmod |
| 17 | really | really | ADV | _ | 22 saved | advmod |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saved | aux:pass |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 saved | nsubj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 saved | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saved | aux |
| 22 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 town | det |
| 24 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 saved | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | past · perfect · passive | third | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary town=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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