The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 178

There was a round iron thing in the floor, like the ones the men shoot the coals down into your cellar, only much larger.

Who acts: round iron thing, men · What happens: be, shoot down · To what, where: coals, cellar

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (round iron thing, men), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 thing	det
4	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	amod
5	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	compound
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 floor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thing	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 shoot	punct
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 ones	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 ones	det
13	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shoot	obl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shoot	nsubj
16	shoot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coals	det
18	coals	coal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shoot	obj
19	down	down	ADV	_	16 shoot	advmod
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 cellar	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 cellar	nmod:poss
22	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shoot	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 larger	punct
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 much	advmod
25	much	much	ADV	_	26 larger	advmod
26	larger	large	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 shoot	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a round iron thing in the floor			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	shoot down	present	the men	the coals		your cellar		like the ones; down property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent coal=Theme into cellar=Destination

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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