The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 37

"I am not taking the hammer because I think there is something there," said he, "but it is handy for breaking the large lumps of coal."

Who acts: I, something, blacksmith, hammer · What happens: not take, think, be, say, break · To what, where: hammer, large lumps · 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 (I, something, blacksmith, hammer), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 taking	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taking	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 taking	advmod
5	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hammer	det
7	hammer	hammer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 taking	obj
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 think	mark
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 think	nsubj
10	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 taking	advcl
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 is	expl
12	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 think	ccomp
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 is	nsubj
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 is	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 taking	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 handy	punct
20	"	"	PUNCT	_	24 handy	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 handy	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 handy	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 handy	cop
24	handy	handy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	parataxis
25	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 breaking	mark
26	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 handy	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lumps	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lumps	amod
29	lumps	lump	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 breaking	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 coal	case
31	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lumps	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
33	"	"	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not take in a quote	present · progressive	I	the hammer			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hammer=Theme
2	think speech: other in a quote	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be in a quote	present	something		there; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past	blacksmith				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	is in a quote	present	hammer			handy property	tree rules
6	break in a quote	gerund	hammer not said here	the large lumps of coal			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lump=Patient

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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