The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 87
A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep under the earth.
Who acts: vast treasure · What happens: lie, treasure · To what, where: safety, gold
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 (vast treasure), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 treasure | det |
| 2 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 treasure | amod |
| 3 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 gold | case |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 treasure | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stones | cc |
| 7 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stones | amod |
| 8 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gold | conj |
| 9 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 safety | case |
| 11 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 12 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 9 lies | advmod |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 earth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 earth | det |
| 15 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lies | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | a vast treasure of gold and precious stones | safety | under the earth; deep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in safety=Location | |||
| 2 | treasure | gold and precious stones | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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