The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 22

He always went up the mountain where the great rocks were, and the tall, dark pine trees, and where other people were afraid to go because of the strange noises that came out of the caves.

Who acts: boy, great rocks, other people, strange noises · What happens: go up, be, go, come out · To what, where: mountain, caves

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 (boy, great rocks, other people, strange noises), 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:pg23661:1539): 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	3 went	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 went	advmod
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	6 mountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mountain	det
6	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 were	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rocks	det
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 rocks	amod
10	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 were	nsubj
11	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 mountain	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trees	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 trees	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
15	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tall	punct
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 trees	amod
18	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 rocks	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 afraid	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 afraid	cc
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 afraid	advmod
23	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 afraid	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 afraid	cop
26	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 were	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 go	mark
28	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 afraid	xcomp
29	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	33 noises	case
30	of	of	ADP	_	29 because	fixed
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 noises	det
32	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 noises	amod
33	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 go	obl
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 came	nsubj
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 noises	acl:relcl
36	out	out	ADP	_	39 caves	case
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 caves	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 caves	det
39	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 came	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go up	past	boy	the mountain	always property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mountain=Extent
2	be	past	the great rocks and the tall dark pine trees			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	other people		afraid property	tree rules
4	go	to-infinitive	other people not said here		because the strange noises	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	come out	past	the strange noises	the caves		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cave=Result

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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