The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 12

The blacksmith had never dared to go beyond the seventh step, and no more have I--so I know no more than he did what was at the bottom of those stairs.

Who acts: more, I, blacksmith · What happens: not dare, not go, have, know, do, be · To what, where: blacksmith, more, bottom

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 (more, I, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 blacksmith	det
2	blacksmith	blacksmith	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dared	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dared	aux
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 dared	advmod
5	dared	dare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 go	mark
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 dared	xcomp
8	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	11 step	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 step	det
10	seventh	seventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 step	amod
11	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 have	cc
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 more	det
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dared	parataxis
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 have	nsubj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 know	punct
19	so	so	ADV	_	21 know	advmod
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 know	nsubj
21	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dared	conj
22	no	no	ADV	_	23 more	advmod
23	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 know	obj
24	than	than	SCONJ	_	26 did	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 did	nsubj
26	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 more	advcl
27	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 bottom	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 bottom	cop
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 bottom	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bottom	det
31	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 did	ccomp
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 stairs	case
33	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	34 stairs	det
34	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 bottom	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not dare	past · perfect · passive		the blacksmith			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not go	to-infinitive				beyond the seventh step	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beyond step=Location
3	have	present	no more				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	know	present	I	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus
5	do	past	blacksmith				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is	past			the bottom	of that stairs	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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