The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 145

He plunged boldly into the caves and searched and wandered and wandered and searched, and at last he came to a third door in the mountain, and on it was written THE BABY IS ASLEEP.

Who acts: fire, BABY · What happens: plunge, search, wander, come, write, be · To what, where: caves, last, mountain

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 (fire, BABY), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg23661:1650): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 plunged	nsubj
2	plunged	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	boldly	boldly	ADV	_	2 plunged	advmod
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 caves	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 caves	det
6	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 plunged	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 searched	cc
8	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plunged	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wandered	cc
10	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plunged	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wandered	cc
12	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plunged	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 searched	cc
14	searched	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plunged	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 came	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	18 last	case
18	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 came	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 plunged	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	24 door	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 door	det
23	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	24 door	amod
24	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 mountain	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 mountain	det
27	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 door	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 written	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 written	cc
30	on	on	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 written	obl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 written	aux:pass
33	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 plunged	conj
34	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 BABY	det
35	BABY	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ASLEEP	nsubj
36	IS	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 ASLEEP	cop
37	ASLEEP	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 written	csubj:pass
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 plunged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	plunge	past	fire	the caves	boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
2	search	past	fire not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
3	wander	past	fire not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	wander	past	fire not said here			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	search	past	fire not said here			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
6	come	past	fire	last	to a third door in the mountain	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location
7	write	past · passive	fire not said here	mountain		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on it=Destination
8	is	present	the BABY		asleep 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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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