Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone, sentence 36
In the most secret chamber of the castle lay the greatest treasure on earth--the Book of Truth.
What happens: lie · To what, where: greatest treasure, secret chamber
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Philosopher's Stone. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 chamber | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chamber | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 secret | advmod |
| 4 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 chamber | amod |
| 5 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 castle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 castle | det |
| 8 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chamber | nmod |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 treasure | det |
| 11 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 treasure | amod |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 17 Book | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Book | det |
| 17 | Book | Book | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 earth | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Truth | case |
| 19 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Book | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the greatest treasure | the secret chamber of the castle | on earth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location treasure=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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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