More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 149
There will be three great entrances, the first guarded by four great giants with drawn swords in their hands, the second by lions, the other by fiery serpents and dragons.
Who acts: three great entrances · What happens: be, guard, draw
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three great entrances), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 be | expl |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 be | aux |
| 3 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 entrances | nummod |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 entrances | amod |
| 6 | entrances | entrance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 be | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 giants | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 giants | det |
| 9 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 giants | amod |
| 10 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 giants | amod |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 giants | case |
| 12 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 giants | nummod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 giants | amod |
| 14 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 entrances | nmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 swords | case |
| 16 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 swords | amod |
| 17 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 giants | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 hands | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hands | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swords | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 second | punct |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 second | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 swords | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 lions | case |
| 25 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 second | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 other | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 other | det |
| 28 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lions | amod |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 serpents | case |
| 30 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 serpents | amod |
| 31 | serpents | serpent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 other | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 dragons | cc |
| 33 | dragons | dragon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 serpents | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 be | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | future | three great entrances by the first guarded four great giants with drawn swords in entrances's hands | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | participle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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