--- title: It must have gone to sleep curled around the hole where the warm ste… — The Book of Dragons · tree and pragmatics description: It must have gone to sleep curled around the hole where the warm steam used to come up from the middle of the earth, and then when the earth got colder, and the column of steam froze and was turned into the North Pole, the dragon must have got frozen in his sleep--frozen too hard to move--and there --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/54/) [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/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg23661/8/) / 54 # The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 8, sentence 54 It must have gone to sleep curled around the hole where the warm steam used to come up from the middle of the earth, and then when the earth got colder, and the column of steam froze and was turned into the North Pole, the dragon must have got frozen in his sleep--frozen too hard to move--and there he stayed. **Who acts:** lump, earth, column, dragon · **What happens:** go, sleep, curl, use, come up, get · **To what, where:** hole, warm steam, middle, North Pole, sleep This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lump, earth, column, dragon), 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:pg23661:8:54 # text = It must have gone to sleep curled around the hole where the warm steam used to come up from the middle of the earth, and then when the earth got colder, and the column of steam froze and was turned into the North Pole, the dragon must have got frozen in his sleep--frozen too hard to move--and there he stayed. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 2 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 4 aux _ _ 4 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 0 root _ _ 5 to to PART TO _ 6 mark _ _ 6 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 7 curled curl VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 xcomp _ _ 8 around around ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 11 where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 acl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 warm warm ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 15 used use VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 advcl _ _ 18 up up ADV RB _ 17 advmod _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 27 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ _ 28 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 31 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 colder cold ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 column column NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ _ 39 froze freeze VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 conj _ _ 43 into into ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 45 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 Pole Pole PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 50 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 52 aux _ _ 52 got get VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 42 conj _ _ 53 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 xcomp _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 56 nmod:poss _ _ 56 sleep sleep NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 -- -- PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 58 frozen freeze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 52 conj _ _ 59 too too ADV RB _ 60 advmod _ _ 60 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 advcl _ _ 61 to to PART TO _ 62 mark _ _ 62 move move VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 60 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 63 -- -- PUNCT , _ 67 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 and and CCONJ CC _ 67 cc _ _ 65 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 67 advmod _ _ 66 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 67 nsubj _ _ 67 stayed stay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 68 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | must · perfect | lump | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | lump *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **curl** | participle | lump *not said here* | | | the hole | | | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around hole=Destination | | 4 | **use** | participle | | the warm steam *not said here* | | | | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **come up** | to-infinitive | | | | the middle of the earth | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from middle=Initial\_Location | | 6 | **get** | past | the earth | | | | then | cold *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **freeze** | past | the column of steam | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 8 | **turn** | past · passive | the column of steam *not said here* | | | | | into the North Pole *result* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: into pole=Result | | 9 | **get** | must · perfect | the dragon | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 10 | **freeze** | participle | the dragon *not said here* | | | dragon's sleep | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 11 | **freeze** | participle | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 12 | **move** | to-infinitive | the dragon *not said here* | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 13 | **stay** | past | dragon | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 14 | **sleep** | | dragon | | | | | | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. 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