The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 3

There was once an old, old castle--it was so old that its walls and towers and turrets and gateways and arches had crumbled to ruins, and of all its old splendor there were only two little rooms left; and it was here that John the blacksmith had set up his forge.

Who acts: old old castle, castle, walls, splendor · What happens: be, crumble, leave, set up · To what, where: two little rooms, John blacksmith

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 (old old castle, castle, walls, splendor), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 castle	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 castle	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 old	punct
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 castle	amod
8	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
9	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 old	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 old	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 old	cop
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 old	advmod
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 castle	amod
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 crumbled	mark
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 walls	nmod:poss
16	walls	wall	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 crumbled	nsubj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 towers	cc
18	towers	tower	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 turrets	cc
20	turrets	turret	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 gateways	cc
22	gateways	gateway	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 arches	cc
24	arches	arch	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walls	conj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 crumbled	aux
26	crumbled	crumble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 old	advcl
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 ruins	case
28	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 crumbled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 splendor	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 splendor	cc
31	of	of	ADP	_	35 splendor	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 splendor	det:predet
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 splendor	nmod:poss
34	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 splendor	amod
35	splendor	splendor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
36	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	37 were	expl
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 splendor	advcl:relcl
38	only	only	ADV	_	39 two	advmod
39	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 rooms	nummod
40	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 rooms	amod
41	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 were	nsubj
42	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 rooms	acl
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 here	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 here	cc
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 here	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 here	cop
47	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 was	ccomp
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 set	mark
49	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	51 blacksmith	compound
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 blacksmith	det
51	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 set	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 set	aux
53	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 here	advcl
54	up	up	ADP	_	53 set	compound:prt
55	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 forge	nmod:poss
56	forge	forge	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 set	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old old castle		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	castle			old property	tree rules
3	crumble	past · perfect	castle's walls and towers and turrets and gateways and arches			to ruins result	vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient to ruin=Result
4	leave	participle		two little rooms not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	splendor			here property	tree rules
6	set up	past · perfect · passive		the John blacksmith			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme forge=Destination

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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