The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund], sentence 35
So he started up again and explored the caves once more.
Who acts: lantern · What happens: start up, explore · To what, where: 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 (lantern), 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 started | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 started | compound:prt |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 started | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 explored | cc |
| 7 | explored | explore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 started | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 caves | det |
| 9 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 explored | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 explored | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start up | past | lantern | again | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | explore | past | lantern not said here | the caves | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent cave=Location |
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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