The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 22

‘When thou goest in,’ continued the Princess, ‘two lions will stand by the doorway, but if thou only goest straight between them they will do thee no harm; go straight forward into a small dark chamber; there thou shalt lie down.

Who acts: thou, two lions, lions · What happens: go in, continue, stand, go, do, lie down · To what, where: Princess, thee, small dark chamber

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, two lions, lions), 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	_	8 continued	punct
2	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 goest	advmod
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 goest	nsubj
4	goest	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 continued	advcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 goest	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 goest	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 goest	punct
8	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Princess	det
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 continued	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 stand	punct
13	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 lions	nummod
14	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stand	nsubj
15	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 stand	aux
16	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 continued	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 doorway	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 doorway	det
19	doorway	doorway	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stand	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 goest	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 goest	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 goest	mark
23	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 goest	nsubj
24	only	only	ADV	_	25 goest	advmod
25	goest	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 continued	parataxis
26	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 them	advmod
27	between	between	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 goest	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 do	nsubj
30	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 do	aux
31	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 goest	ccomp
32	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 do	obj
33	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	34 harm	det
34	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 do	obj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 go	punct
36	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 goest	conj
37	straight	straight	ADV	_	38 forward	advmod
38	forward	forward	ADV	_	36 go	advmod
39	into	into	ADP	_	43 chamber	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 chamber	det
41	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 chamber	amod
42	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 chamber	amod
43	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 go	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	48 lie	punct
45	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	48 lie	expl
46	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	48 lie	nsubj
47	shalt	shall	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	48 lie	aux
48	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 continued	conj
49	down	down	ADV	_	48 lie	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	present	thou				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	continue	past		the Princess			vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent princess=Theme
3	stand	future	two lions			by the doorway	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by doorway=Location
4	go a condition, not said to happen	present	thou			between lions = lion	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	do	future	lions = lion	thee			tree rules
6	go	infinitive	thou not said here		a small dark chamber	forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
7	lie down	shall	thou		there	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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