The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 72

‘When I came to myself I was lying in a crystal coffin in this subterranean vault.

Who acts: I · What happens: come, lie · To what, where: myself, crystal coffin

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	advcl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 myself	case
6	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 came	obl
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 lying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 lying	aux
9	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 coffin	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 coffin	det
12	crystal	crystal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 coffin	amod
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 vault	case
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 vault	det
16	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 vault	amod
17	vault	vault	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lying	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 lying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	I		myself				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to myself=Initial_Location
2	lie	past · progressive	I			a crystal coffin		in this subterranean vault	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in coffin=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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