The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 171
And the blacksmith's wife used to provide teas at ninepence a head, and altogether things grew brighter week by week.
Who acts: wife, things · What happens: use, provide, grow · To what, where: teas, ninepence
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 (wife, things), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 used | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blacksmith | det |
| 3 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 blacksmith | case |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 used | nsubj |
| 6 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 provide | mark |
| 8 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 used | xcomp |
| 9 | teas | tea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 provide | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 ninepence | case |
| 11 | ninepence | ninepence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 provide | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 head | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 provide | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 16 | altogether | altogether | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 things | det |
| 17 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 used | conj |
| 19 | brighter | bright | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 week | amod |
| 20 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 week | case |
| 22 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | the blacksmith's wife | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | provide | to-infinitive | the blacksmith's wife not said here | teas | ninepence | a head obl:unmarked | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tea=Theme | ||
| 3 | grow | past | altogether things | week | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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