The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 4, sentence 50

The Fountain of Lions is situated in the middle of a court of a great castle, the entrance into which is guarded by four fierce lions, two of which sleep alternately, while the other two are awake.

Who acts: four fierce lions, other two · What happens: situate, guard, sleep, be · To what, where: Fountain, middle, entrance

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, 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 (four fierce lions, other two), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fountain	det
2	Fountain	fountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 situated	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Lions	case
4	Lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Fountain	nmod
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 situated	aux:pass
6	situated	situate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 situated	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 court	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 court	det
12	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	16 castle	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 castle	det
15	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 castle	amod
16	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 court	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 entrance	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 entrance	det
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 castle	appos
20	into	into	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 guarded	obl
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 guarded	aux:pass
23	guarded	guard	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 entrance	acl:relcl
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 lions	case
25	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 lions	nummod
26	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 lions	amod
27	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 guarded	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 two	punct
29	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 lions	appos
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 which	case
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 sleep	nsubj
32	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 two	acl:relcl
33	alternately	alternately	ADV	_	32 sleep	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 awake	punct
35	while	while	SCONJ	_	40 awake	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 two	det
37	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 two	amod
38	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	40 awake	nsubj
39	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 awake	cop
40	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 situated	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 situated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	situate	present · passive		the Fountain of Lions	the middle of a court of a great castle		vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in middle=Destination
2	guard	present · passive	four fierce lions		the entrance		vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	present				alternately property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	present	the other two			awake property	tree rules

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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