The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 6, sentence 78

But they were afraid to come out of the cave, so they went farther in, and presently the cave opened out and grew bigger, and the floor was soft sand, and when they had come to the very end of the cave there was a door, and on it was written: UNIVERSAL TAPROOM.

Who acts: dragons, cave, floor · What happens: be, come out, go, open out, grow, come · To what, where: cave, soft sand, end

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragons, cave, floor), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 afraid	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 afraid	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	cop
4	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 come	mark
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 afraid	xcomp
7	out	out	ADP	_	10 cave	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 cave	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cave	det
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 afraid	parataxis
15	farther	far	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 in	advmod
16	in	in	ADV	_	14 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 grew	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
19	presently	presently	ADV	_	25 grew	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cave	det
21	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	nsubj
22	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 grew	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 opened	compound:prt
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 grew	cc
25	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 went	conj
26	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 grew	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sand	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 sand	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 sand	nsubj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 sand	cop
32	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 sand	amod
33	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 grew	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 come	cc
36	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 come	advmod
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 come	nsubj
38	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 come	aux
39	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 afraid	conj
40	to	to	ADP	_	43 end	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 end	det
42	very	very	ADV	_	43 end	advmod
43	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 come	obl
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 cave	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 cave	det
46	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 end	nmod
47	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 was	expl
48	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 cave	acl:relcl
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 door	det
50	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 was	nsubj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 written	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 written	cc
53	on	on	SCONJ	_	56 written	mark
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 written	nsubj:pass
55	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 written	aux:pass
56	written	write	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 afraid	parataxis
57	:	:	PUNCT	_	59 TAPROOM	punct
58	UNIVERSAL	universal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 TAPROOM	amod
59	TAPROOM	taproom	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 written	obl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 afraid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	dragons = dragon			afraid property	tree rules
2	come out	to-infinitive	dragons = dragon not said here	the cave			vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient cave=Result
3	go	past	dragons = dragon				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	open out	participle	the cave not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	grow	past	the cave			big, presently property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is a	past	the floor	soft sand			tree rules
7	come	past · perfect	dragons = dragon		to the end of the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location
8	write	past · passive		cave		UNIVERSAL TAPROOM obl	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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