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title: Not the deepest vault, even if its lock were enchanted, could preven… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Not the deepest vault, even if its lock were enchanted, could prevent my stealing anything out of it that I wished to have.” Who acts: deepest vault, I. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 125

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Not the deepest vault, even if its lock were enchanted, could prevent my stealing anything out of it that I wished to have.”

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**Who acts:** deepest vault, I · **What happens:** enchant, prevent, wish, have · **To what, where:** lock, anything

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deepest vault, I), 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:pg2435:4:125
# text = Not the deepest vault, even if its lock were enchanted, could prevent my stealing anything out of it that I wished to have.”
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	lock	lock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	enchanted	enchant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	stealing	stealing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	14	obj	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enchant** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | the deepest vault *not said here* | vault's lock |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **prevent** | could | the deepest vault | anything |  | lock |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer anything=Theme |
| 3 | **wish** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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