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title: The fountain of lions is situated in the middle of a court of a grea… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: 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 while the other two are awake. Who acts: four fierce lions, other two. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Win
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 58

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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 while the other two are awake.

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

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. 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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:14:58
# text = 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 while the other two are awake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	situated	situate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
26	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	appos	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	32	det	_	_
32	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
33	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	38	nsubj	_	_
37	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	awake	awake	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 | **is** | present | the other two |  |  |  |  | awake *property* | tree rules |

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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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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