The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 9
The two rooms were warm and weather-tight, but not very large; so the blacksmith got into the way of keeping his old iron, his odds and ends, his fagots, and his twopence worth of coal in the great dungeon down under the castle.
Who acts: two rooms, blacksmith, way · What happens: be, not be, get down, keep, end · To what, where: twopence worth, way, old iron, fagots
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 (two rooms, blacksmith, way), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rooms | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 rooms | nummod |
| 3 | rooms | room | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | cop |
| 5 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 tight | cc |
| 7 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tight | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 weather | punct |
| 9 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 large | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 large | cc |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 large | advmod |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 large | advmod |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 warm | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 got | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 got | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 blacksmith | det |
| 18 | blacksmith | blacksmith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | nsubj |
| 19 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 warm | parataxis |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 way | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 way | det |
| 22 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 23 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 24 keeping | mark |
| 24 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 way | acl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 iron | nmod:poss |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 iron | amod |
| 27 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keeping | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 odds | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 odds | nmod:poss |
| 30 | odds | odd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 iron | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 ends | cc |
| 32 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 got | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fagots | punct |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 fagots | nmod:poss |
| 35 | fagots | fagot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 ends | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 worth | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 worth | cc |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 worth | nmod:poss |
| 39 | twopence | twopence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 worth | compound |
| 40 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 coal | case |
| 42 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 worth | nmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 dungeon | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 dungeon | det |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 dungeon | amod |
| 46 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 coal | nmod |
| 47 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 got | compound:prt |
| 48 | under | under | ADP | _ | 50 castle | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 castle | det |
| 50 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 got | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 warm | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the two rooms | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the two rooms not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | not be | the two rooms not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | get down | past | the blacksmith | blacksmith's twopence worth of coal in the great dungeon | the way | under the castle | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||
| 5 | keep | gerund | the way not said here | blacksmith's old iron and blacksmith's odds | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent iron=Theme | ||||
| 6 | end | present | the blacksmith not said here | blacksmith's fagots | 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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