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title: A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep unde… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep under the earth. Who acts: vast treasure. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 87

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A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep under the earth.

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**Who acts:** vast treasure · **What happens:** lie, treasure · **To what, where:** safety, gold

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast treasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:15:87
# text = A vast treasure of gold and precious stones lies in safety deep under the earth.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
9	lies	lie	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | present | a vast treasure of gold and precious stones |  |  | safety |  | under the earth; deep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in safety=Location |
| 2 | **treasure** |  |  | gold and precious stones |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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