--- title: Still, work away till you find solid rock on all sides of you, and s… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Still, work away till you find solid rock on all sides of you, and soon you will come to a square slab of stone; force it out of the wall, and you will stand at the entrance of the treasure house. Who acts: you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:15:97 # text = Still, work away till you find solid rock on all sides of you, and soon you will come to a square slab of stone; force it out of the wall, and you will stand at the entrance of the treasure house. 1 Still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 work work VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 till till SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ _ 8 solid solid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 12 det _ _ 12 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 12 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 18 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 square square ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 slab slab NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 28 force force VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 29 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obj _ _ 30 out out ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 wall wall NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 36 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 37 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 38 stand stand VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 conj _ _ 39 at at ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 41 det _ _ 41 entrance entrance NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 treasure treasure NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **work away** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | still | away *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | present | you | solid rock | | all sides of you | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Topic | | 3 | **come** | future | you | | | a square slab of stone | | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to slab=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **force** | infinitive | you *not said here* | rock | | the wall | | | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | | 5 | **stand** | future | you | | | the entrance of the treasure house | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at entrance=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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 96](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/96/) - next →: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/98/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/15/)