The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 8
John the blacksmith struggled on as best he could, with a few odd jobs from travelers and strangers who did not know what a superior forge the mayor's was.
Who acts: strangers, superior forge · What happens: struggle on, not know, be · To what, where: blacksmith, strangers · 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 (strangers, superior forge), 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 | John | John | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blacksmith | det |
| 3 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 John | appos |
| 4 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 blacksmith | acl |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 struggled | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 best | case |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 could | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 struggled | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 jobs | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 jobs | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 jobs | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jobs | amod |
| 14 | odd | odd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jobs | amod |
| 15 | jobs | job | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 struggled | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 travelers | case |
| 17 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 jobs | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 strangers | cc |
| 19 | strangers | stranger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 travelers | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 know | nsubj |
| 21 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 know | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 know | advmod |
| 23 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 strangers | acl:relcl |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 23 know | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 forge | det |
| 26 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 forge | amod |
| 27 | forge | forge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 what | nsubj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 mayor | det |
| 29 | mayor | Mayor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 what | nsubj |
| 30 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 29 mayor | case |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | cop |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 John | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle on | participle | the blacksmith not said here | with a few odd jobs from travelers and strangers | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with job=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not know | past · do-support | strangers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | a superior forge | strangers | 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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