Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Two Princes, part 2, sentence 37

Surely it could not be that their father had dug up a coffer from beneath an oak of the forest and it was full of nothing but glass! "

Who acts: money · What happens: not dig up, be · To what, where: money, oak

This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (money), 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	Surely	surely	ADV	_	10 dug	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dug	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 dug	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 dug	advmod
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 dug	aux:pass
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 dug	mark
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 father	nmod:poss
8	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 dug	aux
10	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 dug	compound:prt
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coffer	det
13	coffer	coffer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	17 oak	case
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 oak	case
16	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 oak	det
17	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dug	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 forest	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 forest	det
20	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 oak	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 full	cc
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 full	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 full	cop
24	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dug	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 nothing	case
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	24 full	obl
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 glass	cc
28	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 nothing	conj
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 dug	punct
30	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 dug	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not dig up	could · perfect · passive		money		a oak of the forest		surely property	tree rules
2	is	past	money					of nothing; full property	tree rules

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: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (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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