---
title: Surely it could not be that their father had dug up a coffer from be… — Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Two Princes, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/37/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/) / [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/) / 37

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

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
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! "

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** money · **What happens:** not dig up, be · **To what, where:** money, oak

<!-- .vabout -->
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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg29672:23:37
# text = 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! "
1	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	dug	dig	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	coffer	coffer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	oak	oak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	24	obl	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/36/)
- next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/38/)
- ↑ back to [The Two Princes, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg29672/23/)