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title: In his hand he carried a whip made of twenty long snakes, all alive… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In his hand he carried a whip made of twenty long snakes, all alive and writhing, and the Princess was so terrified at the sight that she heartily wished she had never come. Who acts: crocodile, Princess. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2, with its dependen
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 89

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In his hand he carried a whip made of twenty long snakes, all alive and writhing, and the Princess was so terrified at the sight that she heartily wished she had never come.

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**Who acts:** crocodile, Princess · **What happens:** carry, make, be, wish, not come · **To what, where:** whip, hand, sight · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crocodile, Princess), 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:pg540:35:89
# text = In his hand he carried a whip made of twenty long snakes, all alive and writhing, and the Princess was so terrified at the sight that she heartily wished she had never come.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	whip	whip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
15	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	writhing	writhing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
29	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
30	heartily	heartily	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carry** | past | crocodile | a whip and all alive writhing |  | crocodile's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whip=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  | a whip and all alive writhing *not said here* |  |  |  | of twenty long snakes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Princess |  |  | the sight |  | terrified *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **wish** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  | heartily *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **not** **come** | past | Princess |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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