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title: It was a very fine dungeon indeed, with a handsome vaulted roof and… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a very fine dungeon indeed, with a handsome vaulted roof and big iron rings whose staples were built into the wall, very strong and convenient for tying captives to, and at one end was a broken flight of wide steps leading down no one knew where. Who acts: forge, one. A sentence of «The Book 
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# The Book of Dragons, The Dragon Tamers\], sentence 10

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It was a very fine dungeon indeed, with a handsome vaulted roof and big iron rings whose staples were built into the wall, very strong and convenient for tying captives to, and at one end was a broken flight of wide steps leading down no one knew where.

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**Who acts:** forge, one · **What happens:** be, vault, build, tie, break, lead down · **To what, where:** fine dungeon, staples, wall, captives, broken flight, one end · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, The Dragon Tamers\]. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forge, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg23661:12:10
# text = It was a very fine dungeon indeed, with a handsome vaulted roof and big iron rings whose staples were built into the wall, very strong and convenient for tying captives to, and at one end was a broken flight of wide steps leading down no one knew where.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	very	very	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	handsome	handsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	vaulted	vault	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	rings	ring	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
18	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	staples	staple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
22	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	convenient	convenient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	tying	tie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	advcl	_	_
32	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
36	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nummod	_	_
38	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
39	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nmod	_	_
46	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	50	csubj	_	_
47	down	down	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	_
48	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	49	det	_	_
49	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	nsubj	_	_
50	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	acl:relcl	_	_
51	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | forge | a fine dungeon and a handsome vaulted roof and big iron rings |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vault** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | staples |  | the wall and a broken flight |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: subject=Material into wall=Product |
| 4 | **tie** | gerund |  | captives |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=Patient |
| 5 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | a broken flight |  |  | at one end | of wide steps | tree rules |
| 7 | **lead down** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 8 | **know** | past | no one | wide steps *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer step=Stimulus |

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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.

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**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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