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title: An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree th… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot. Who acts: enormous cobra, little llama. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 106

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An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot.

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**Who acts:** enormous cobra, little llama · **What happens:** creep up, throw on, graze, stem · **To what, where:** enormous cobra, stem, little llama, foot, tall palm tree

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, 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 (enormous cobra, little llama), 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:pg3454:14:106
# text = An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cobra	cobra	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	crept	creep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stem	stem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	palm	palm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
15	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	llama	llama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	grazing	graze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **creep up** | past · perfect · passive |  | a enormous cobra |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **throw on** | past | a enormous cobra | stem | a little llama |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to llama=Destination |
| 3 | **graze** | past · progressive | a little llama |  |  | the foot |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **stem** |  |  | a tall palm tree |  |  |  |  | nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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