The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 36

Then the blacksmith took his shovel in one hand and his riveting hammer in the other, and hung the old stable lantern on his little finger, and went down to get the coals.

Who acts: blacksmith · What happens: take, rivet, hang, go down, get · To what, where: shovel, one hand, old stable lantern, little finger, coals

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 (blacksmith), 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	4 took	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blacksmith	det
3	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shovel	nmod:poss
6	shovel	shovel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 hand	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 hand	nummod
9	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hammer	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hammer	nmod:poss
12	riveting	rivet	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 hammer	amod
13	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hand	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 other	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 hammer	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hung	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 hung	cc
19	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 lantern	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lantern	amod
22	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lantern	amod
23	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hung	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	27 finger	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 finger	nmod:poss
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 finger	amod
27	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hung	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 went	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 went	cc
30	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 went	advmod
32	to	to	PART	_	33 get	mark
33	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 went	advcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 coals	det
35	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 get	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the blacksmith	blacksmith's shovel	one hand and blacksmith's riveting hammer in the other	then		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shovel=Value in hand=Location
2	rivet	gerund						vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	hang	past	the blacksmith not said here	the old stable lantern	blacksmith's little finger			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme on finger=Destination
4	go down	past	the blacksmith not said here				down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	get	to-infinitive	the blacksmith not said here	the coals				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer coal=Stimulus

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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