The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 87
A blacksmith is nothing without a hammer."
Who acts: blacksmith · What happens: be · To what, where: nothing
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), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 blacksmith | det |
| 2 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nothing | cop |
| 4 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 7 hammer | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hammer | det |
| 7 | hammer | hammer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nothing | nmod |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 nothing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a blacksmith | nothing | without a hammer | 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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