The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 4

He was too poor to live in a proper house, and no one asked any rent for the rooms in the ruin, because all the lords of the castle were dead and gone this many a year.

Who acts: blacksmith, one, lords · What happens: be, live, ask, go · To what, where: proper house, rent, many

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, one, lords), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 poor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 poor	advmod
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 live	mark
6	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 poor	advcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 house	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 house	amod
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 live	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	nsubj
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poor	conj
16	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	17 rent	det
17	rent	rent	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 rooms	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 rooms	det
20	rooms	room	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 rent	nmod
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ruin	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ruin	det
23	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 rooms	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 dead	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	33 dead	mark
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 lords	det:predet
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 lords	det
28	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 dead	nsubj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 castle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 castle	det
31	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 lords	nmod
32	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 dead	cop
33	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 asked	advcl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 gone	cc
35	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 dead	conj
36	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	37 many	nsubj
37	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 gone	obj
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 year	det
39	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 many	obl:unmarked
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 poor	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	blacksmith			poor property	tree rules
2	live	to-infinitive	blacksmith not said here		a proper house		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location
3	ask speech: ask	past	no one	any rent		for the rooms in the ruin	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent rent=Recipient
4	is	past	all lords of the castle			dead property	tree rules
5	go	participle	all lords of the castle not said here	many			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location many=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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