The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers], sentence 39

So he went down the winding stairs to the dungeon and stood at the bottom of the steps, holding the lantern above his head just to see that the dungeon really was empty, as usual.

Who acts: blacksmith, dungeon · What happens: go down, stand, hold, see, be · To what, where: winding stairs, bottom, lantern, head · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (blacksmith, dungeon), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	7 stairs	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stairs	det
6	winding	winding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stairs	compound
7	stairs	stair	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 dungeon	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dungeon	det
10	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stood	cc
12	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 bottom	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 bottom	det
15	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stood	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 steps	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 steps	det
18	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bottom	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 holding	punct
20	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 stood	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lantern	det
22	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 holding	obj
23	above	above	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lantern	nmod
26	just	just	ADV	_	28 see	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 see	mark
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 holding	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 empty	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dungeon	det
31	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 empty	nsubj
32	really	really	ADV	_	34 empty	advmod
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 empty	cop
34	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 see	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 usual	punct
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 usual	case
37	usual	usual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 empty	parataxis
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go down	past	blacksmith	the winding stairs		to the dungeon result	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient stair=Extent to dungeon=Result
2	stand	past	blacksmith not said here		the bottom of the steps		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at bottom=Location
3	hold	gerund	blacksmith not said here	the lantern	blacksmith's head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme above head=Location
4	see	to-infinitive	blacksmith not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is	past	the dungeon			empty property	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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