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title: “Not far from here there is a deep cave, the entrance to which is gu… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “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. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, with its dependency tree
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 142

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“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.

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

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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.

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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:pg503:28:142
# text = “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.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	7	expl	_	_
7	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
16	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	dragons	dragon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	allow	allow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	acl:relcl	_	_
29	anyone	anyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	28	iobj	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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:** «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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