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title: There will be three great entrances, the first guarded by four great… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, w
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 12, sentence 149

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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.

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**Who acts:** three great entrances · **What happens:** be, guard, draw

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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.

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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:pg14241:26:149
# text = 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.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	entrances	entrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
9	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
10	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	giants	giant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	conj	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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:** «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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