The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 40
Half of it was empty as usual, except for the old iron and odds and ends, and the firewood and the coals.
Who acts: Half · What happens: be, end
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 (Half), 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 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 5 empty | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 it | case |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Half | nmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | cop |
| 5 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 usual | case |
| 7 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 empty | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 iron | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 13 iron | case |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 iron | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 iron | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 iron | amod |
| 13 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 odds | cc |
| 15 | odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 iron | conj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ends | cc |
| 17 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 empty | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 firewood | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 firewood | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 firewood | det |
| 21 | firewood | firewood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 empty | parataxis |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 coals | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 coals | det |
| 24 | coals | coal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 firewood | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 empty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Half of dungeon | as usual; empty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | end | present | Half of dungeon not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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