The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 47

Here's a nice end for a respectable blacksmith!"

Who acts: nice end · What happens: be

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 (nice end), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Here	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 end	det
4	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 end	amod
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Here	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 blacksmith	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 blacksmith	det
8	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 blacksmith	amod
9	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nmod
10	!	!	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a nice end for a respectable blacksmith					here property	tree rules

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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