The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 122

There are hundreds and hundreds of us here, and every one of us can spare a little tuft of soft breast feathers to help to keep two kind little hearts warm!"

Who acts: hundreds, one · What happens: be, spare, help, keep · To what, where: little tuft, two kind little hearts

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundreds, one), 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 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 hundreds	cc
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	conj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 hundreds	nmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 are	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spare	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 spare	cc
11	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spare	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 us	case
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 one	nmod
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 spare	aux
16	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 are	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tuft	det
18	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tuft	amod
19	tuft	tuft	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spare	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 feathers	case
21	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 feathers	amod
22	breast	breast	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 feathers	compound
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tuft	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 help	mark
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 spare	advcl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 keep	mark
27	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 help	xcomp
28	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 hearts	nummod
29	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hearts	amod
30	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hearts	amod
31	hearts	heart	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 keep	obj
32	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 keep	xcomp
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct
34	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 are	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	does	present	hundreds of us and hundreds		here; there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spare	can	every one of us	a little tuft of soft breast feathers			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent tuft=Asset
3	help	to-infinitive	every one of us not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	keep	to-infinitive	every one of us not said here	two kind little hearts		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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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