The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 68
It is not in the hearthstone, but in that tall tree that lies the secret of my strength.”
Who acts: hearthstone, tall tree · What happens: not be, lie · To what, where: hearthstone, secret
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearthstone, tall tree), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hearthstone | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hearthstone | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 hearthstone | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hearthstone | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hearthstone | det |
| 6 | hearthstone | hearthstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 tree | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hearthstone | appos |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lies | nsubj |
| 14 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 tree | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 secret | det |
| 16 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lies | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 strength | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 strength | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 secret | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearthstone | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearthstone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | hearthstone | the hearthstone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | present | that tall tree | the secret of my strength | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location secret=Theme |
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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