The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 97
Still, work away till you find solid rock on all sides of you, and soon you will come to a square slab of stone; force it out of the wall, and you will stand at the entrance of the treasure house.
Who acts: you · What happens: work away, find, come, force, stand · To what, where: solid rock, sides, square slab, rock, wall, entrance
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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 work | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 work | advmod |
| 5 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | advcl |
| 8 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 sides | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 sides | det |
| 12 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 find | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 sides | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 come | cc |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 come | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 come | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 work | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 slab | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 slab | det |
| 23 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 slab | amod |
| 24 | slab | slab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stone | case |
| 26 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slab | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 force | punct |
| 28 | force | force | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 work | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 force | obj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 33 wall | case |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 wall | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 wall | det |
| 33 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 force | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stand | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 stand | cc |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 stand | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 stand | aux |
| 38 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 force | conj |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 entrance | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 entrance | det |
| 41 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stand | obl |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 house | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 house | det |
| 44 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 house | compound |
| 45 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 entrance | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 work | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work away | imperative | you not said here | still | away property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | find | present | you | solid rock | all sides of you | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Topic | |||
| 3 | come | future | you | a square slab of stone | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to slab=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | force | infinitive | you not said here | rock | the wall | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 5 | stand | future | you | the entrance of the treasure house | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=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 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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