The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 31

He wanted to find out what made the noises that people were afraid of, and there was nothing in the caves to tell him.

Who acts: lantern, noises, nothing · What happens: want, find out, make, be, tell · To what, where: noises, lantern · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (lantern, noises, nothing), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 find	mark
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 find	compound:prt
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 made	nsubj
7	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 find	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 noises	det
9	noises	noise	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 made	obj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 afraid	nsubj
11	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 afraid	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 afraid	cop
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 noises	acl
14	of	of	ADP	_	13 afraid	case
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 was	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 was	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 was	expl
18	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	parataxis
19	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	18 was	nsubj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 caves	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 caves	det
22	caves	cave	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 nothing	nmod
23	to	to	PART	_	24 tell	mark
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 nothing	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	lantern					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	find out not said to happen	to-infinitive	lantern not said here					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	past		the noises				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material noise=Product
4	is	past	the noises				afraid property	tree rules
5	be	past	nothing			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive			lantern			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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