The Book of Dragons, The Fiery Dragon], sentence 222

And so they were: There were only black cinders where his hands ought to have been.

Who acts: hands · What happens: be · To what, where: black cinders

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Fiery Dragon]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hands), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 cinders	cc
2	so	so	ADV	_	10 cinders	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cinders	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cinders	cop
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 were	punct
6	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 were	expl
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cinders	cop
8	only	only	ADV	_	10 cinders	advmod
9	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cinders	amod
10	cinders	cinder	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 ought	advmod
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hands	nmod:poss
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 ought	nsubj
14	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 cinders	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	17 been	mark
16	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 been	aux
17	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 ought	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 cinders	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	hands = hand	black cinders					tree rules
2	be	to-infinitive · perfect	hands = hand not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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