The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 74

“The chest which stood at the foot of the bed” proved full of gold and precious stones; and “what was under the side of the cave” he found to be a great ship, with oars and sails that went of itself as well on land as in the water.

Who acts: chest, thing, that · What happens: stand, prove, be, find, go · To what, where: foot, side, great ship · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chest, thing, that), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 proved	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chest	det
3	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 proved	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chest	acl:relcl
6	at	at	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stood	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 foot	nmod
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 stood	punct
13	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 proved	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 gold	case
16	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 stones	cc
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stones	amod
19	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 gold	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 side	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 side	cc
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 side	punct
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 side	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 side	cop
25	under	under	ADP	_	27 side	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 side	det
27	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 proved	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 cave	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cave	det
30	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 found	obl
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	30 cave	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 found	nsubj
33	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 side	acl:relcl
34	to	to	PART	_	38 ship	mark
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 ship	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 ship	det
37	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 ship	amod
38	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 found	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 oars	punct
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 oars	case
41	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ship	obl
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 sails	cc
43	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 ship	conj
44	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 went	nsubj
45	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 ship	appos
46	of	of	ADP	_	47 itself	case
47	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	45 went	obl
48	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	51 land	cc
49	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	48 as	fixed
50	on	on	ADP	_	51 land	case
51	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	conj
52	as	as	ADP	_	55 water	case
53	in	in	ADP	_	55 water	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 water	det
55	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 went	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 proved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand in a quote	past	the chest		the foot of the bed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
2	prove	past	the chest			full property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	past			the side		tree rules
4	find	past	thing	the side not said here		of the cave	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Topic
5	is a	to-infinitive		a great ship and sails		with oars	tree rules
6	go	past	that			of bed; as the water	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of itself=Initial_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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