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title: And with it he went exploring again to see if he could find the thin… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics
description: And with it he went exploring again to see if he could find the things that made the other sorts of noises. Who acts: lantern, things. A sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Kind Little Edmund], with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Book of Dragons, Kind Little Edmund\], sentence 78

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And with it he went exploring again to see if he could find the things that made the other sorts of noises.

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**Who acts:** lantern, things · **What happens:** go, explore, see, find, make, sort · **To what, where:** things, other sorts, noises

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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, things), 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:pg23661:14:78
# text = And with it he went exploring again to see if he could find the things that made the other sorts of noises.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	exploring	explore	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	noises	noise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | lantern |  |  |  |  | with chemical | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **explore** | gerund | lantern *not said here* |  |  |  | again |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | to-infinitive | lantern *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **find** *a condition, not said to happen* | could | lantern | the things |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
| 5 | **make** | past | the things | the other sorts of noises |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sort=Product |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | noises |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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