The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 107
In the midst of the cavern stands a copper chest, in that you will find gold and silver, enough and to spare, and you may help yourself to your heart’s content.
Who acts: you · What happens: stand, find, spare, help · To what, where: copper chest, midst, gold, yourself
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 midst | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 midst | det |
| 3 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cavern | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cavern | det |
| 6 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 midst | nmod |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 chest | det |
| 9 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chest | compound |
| 10 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 find | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 find | mark |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 in | fixed |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stands | parataxis |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 find | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 silver | cc |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gold | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enough | punct |
| 21 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 gold | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 spare | cc |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 spare | mark |
| 24 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 find | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 help | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 help | cc |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 help | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 help | aux |
| 29 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stands | parataxis |
| 30 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 29 help | obj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 content | case |
| 32 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 content | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 heart | case |
| 35 | content | content | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 help | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a copper chest | the midst of the cavern | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent chest=Theme in midst=Destination | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | gold and silver | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic | ||||
| 3 | spare | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | help | may | you | yourself | to your heart's content | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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