The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 142

“Not far from here there is a deep cave, the entrance to which is guarded by two dragons with fiery eyes, who will not allow anyone to pass them.

Who acts: deep cave, two dragons, fiery eyes · What happens: be, guard, not allow, pass · To what, where: anyone, cave

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deep cave, two dragons, fiery eyes), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 far	punct
2	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 far	advmod
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 is	advmod
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 here	case
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 far	obl
6	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 is	expl
7	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cave	det
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cave	amod
10	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 is	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entrance	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 entrance	det
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cave	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 which	case
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 guarded	obl
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 guarded	aux:pass
17	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 entrance	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 dragons	case
19	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	20 dragons	nummod
20	dragons	dragon	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 guarded	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 eyes	case
22	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eyes	amod
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 guarded	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 allow	punct
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 allow	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 allow	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 allow	advmod
28	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 eyes	acl:relcl
29	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	28 allow	iobj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 pass	mark
31	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 allow	xcomp
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pass	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 is	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	does in a quote	present	a deep cave and the entrance			there	far property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	guard in a quote	present · passive	two dragons				to the entrance; with fiery eyes	vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	not allow in a quote	future	fiery eyes		anyone			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer anyone=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
4	pass not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	fiery eyes not said here	cave				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Trajectory

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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