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title: ‘When I came to myself I was lying in a crystal coffin in this subte… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘When I came to myself I was lying in a crystal coffin in this subterranean vault. Who acts: I. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crystal Coffin, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Crystal Coffin, sentence 72

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

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

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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.

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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:pg7277:45:72
# text = ‘When I came to myself I was lying in a crystal coffin in this subterranean vault.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	coffin	coffin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	vault	vault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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