--- title: He plunged boldly into the caves and searched and wandered and wande… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: He plunged boldly into the caves and searched and wandered and wandered and searched, and at last he came to a third door in the mountain, and on it was written THE BABY IS ASLEEP. Who acts: fire, BABY. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree a --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/145/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Book of Dragons](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/) / [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/) / 145 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 145 He plunged boldly into the caves and searched and wandered and wandered and searched, and at last he came to a third door in the mountain, and on it was written THE BABY IS ASLEEP. **Who acts:** fire, BABY · **What happens:** plunge, search, wander, come, write, be · **To what, where:** caves, last, mountain 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 (fire, BABY), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg23661:1650`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:14:145 # text = He plunged boldly into the caves and searched and wandered and wandered and searched, and at last he came to a third door in the mountain, and on it was written THE BABY IS ASLEEP. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 plunged plunge VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 boldly boldly ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 4 into into ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 caves cave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 wandered wander VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 searched search VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 24 amod _ _ 24 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obl _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 aux:pass _ _ 33 written write VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 34 THE the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 BABY baby NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 36 IS be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ _ 37 ASLEEP asleep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 csubj:pass _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plunge** | past | fire | | | the caves | | boldly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **search** | past | fire *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wander** | past | fire *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **wander** | past | fire *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **search** | past | fire *not said here* | | | | | | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **come** | past | fire | | | last | | to a third door in the mountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial\_Location | | 7 | **write** | past · passive | fire *not said here* | | | mountain | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on it=Destination | | 8 | **is** | present | the BABY | | | | | asleep *property* | tree rules | 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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 144](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/144/) - next →: [sentence 146](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/146/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)