The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 29

The caves were very dark, but his lantern lighted them up beautifully; and they were most interesting caves, with stalactites and stalagmites and fossils, and all the things you read about in the instructive books for the young.

Who acts: caves, lantern, things · What happens: be, light up, read · To what, where: Caves, interesting caves, instructive books

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 (caves, lantern, things), 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 caves	det
2	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dark	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	cop
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 dark	advmod
5	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lighted	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 lighted	cc
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lantern	nmod:poss
9	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lighted	nsubj
10	lighted	light	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	advcl
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lighted	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 lighted	compound:prt
13	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	_	10 lighted	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 caves	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 caves	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 caves	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 caves	cop
18	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	19 interesting	advmod
19	interesting	interesting	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 caves	amod
20	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dark	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 stalactites	punct
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 stalactites	case
23	stalactites	stalactite	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 caves	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stalagmites	cc
25	stalagmites	stalagmite	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stalactites	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fossils	cc
27	fossils	fossil	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 stalactites	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 read	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 read	cc
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 things	det:predet
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 things	det
32	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 read	nsubj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 read	nsubj
34	read	read	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dark	parataxis
35	about	about	ADV	_	34 read	advmod
36	in	in	ADP	_	39 books	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 books	det
38	instructive	instructive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 books	amod
39	books	book	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 read	obl
40	for	for	ADP	_	42 young	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 young	det
42	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 books	nmod
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the caves			dark property	tree rules
2	light up	past	boy's lantern	Caves = cave		beautifully property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product
3	is a	past	Caves = cave	interesting caves and stalactites and stalagmites and fossils			tree rules
4	read	present	all things		the instructive books for the young	about property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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