--- title: But the day after he got up very early and took the lunch Granny had… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: But the day after he got up very early and took the lunch Granny had ready for him to take to school--two boiled eggs and an apple turnover--and he took his lantern and went off as straight as a dart to the mountains to explore the caves. Who acts: boy, Granny. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/28/) [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/) / 28 # The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 28 But the day after he got up very early and took the lunch Granny had ready for him to take to school--two boiled eggs and an apple turnover--and he took his lantern and went off as straight as a dart to the mountains to explore the caves. **Who acts:** boy, Granny · **What happens:** get up, take, have, boil, go off, explore · **To what, where:** lunch, lantern, 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 (boy, Granny), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg23661:14:28 # text = But the day after he got up very early and took the lunch Granny had ready for him to take to school--two boiled eggs and an apple turnover--and he took his lantern and went off as straight as a dart to the mountains to explore the caves. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 after after ADP IN _ 3 nmod _ _ 5 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 up up ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 early early ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ _ 10 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 lunch lunch NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 Granny Granny PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 16 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ _ 17 for for SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 xcomp _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 school school NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 25 boiled boil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 amod _ _ 26 eggs egg NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 28 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 turnover turnover NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 33 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 35 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 36 lantern lantern NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ _ 39 off off ADP RP _ 38 compound:prt _ _ 40 as as ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 straight straight ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 42 as as ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 43 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 dart dart NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 45 to to ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 48 to to PART TO _ 49 mark _ _ 49 explore explore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 advcl _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 caves cave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 49 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **get up** | past | boy | | | | day | early *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **take** | past | boy *not said here* | the lunch | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lunch=Theme | | 3 | **have** | past | Granny | | | | | ready *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | boy | | | | | to school and two boiled eggs and a apple turnover *result* | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to school=Result | | 5 | **boil** | participle | | | | | | | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **take** | past | boy | boy's lantern | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme | | 7 | **go off** | past | boy *not said here* | | | | | as a dart; to the mountains | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **explore** | to-infinitive | boy *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. - ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/27/) - next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/29/) - ↑ back to [Kind Little Edmund\]](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/14/)