The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 5

So there John blew his bellows and hammered his iron and did all the work which came his way.

Who acts: John, work · What happens: blow, hammer, do, come, bellow · To what, where: bellows, iron, work

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 (John, work), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 blew	advmod
2	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 blew	expl
3	John	John	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blew	nsubj
4	blew	blow	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 bellows	nmod:poss
6	bellows	bellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 blew	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 hammered	cc
8	hammered	hammer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blew	conj
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 iron	nmod:poss
10	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hammered	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 did	cc
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blew	conj
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 work	det:predet
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 work	det
15	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 did	obj
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 work	acl:relcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 way	nmod:poss
19	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	nsubj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 blew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	blow	past	John	John's bellows	there	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent bellow=Patient
2	hammer	past	John not said here	John's iron		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Patient
3	do	past	John not said here	all work		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
4	come	past	all work			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bellow		John			nom bellow «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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