The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 125
Not the deepest vault, even if its lock were enchanted, could prevent my stealing anything out of it that I wished to have.”
Who acts: deepest vault, I · What happens: enchant, prevent, wish, have · To what, where: lock, anything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deepest vault, I), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 vault | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 vault | det |
| 3 | deepest | deep | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 vault | amod |
| 4 | vault | vault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prevent | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 enchanted | punct |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 11 enchanted | advmod |
| 7 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 enchanted | mark |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lock | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 enchanted | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 enchanted | aux:pass |
| 11 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 vault | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vault | punct |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 prevent | aux |
| 14 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 anything | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stealing | stealing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 anything | compound |
| 17 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 prevent | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 anything | nmod |
| 21 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 wished | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 wished | nsubj |
| 23 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 anything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 wished | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 prevent | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enchant a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | the deepest vault not said here | vault's lock | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | prevent | could | the deepest vault | anything | lock | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer anything=Theme | |||
| 3 | wish | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 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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