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title: ‘When thou goest in,’ continued the Princess, ‘two lions will stand… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘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. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» b
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 22

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‘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.

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

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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.

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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:pg540:26:22
# text = ‘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.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
4	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
5	in	in	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
8	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	doorway	doorway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	goest	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
26	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	between	between	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
32	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	obj	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	harm	harm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
37	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
41	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
42	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
45	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	48	expl	_	_
46	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	48	nsubj	_	_
47	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
49	down	down	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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 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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