--- title: Then the serpent made a rush at the youth with wide open jaws to swa… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Then the serpent made a rush at the youth with wide open jaws to swallow him at one gulp, but the young man leaped aside and drew his sword, and fought till he had cut off all the seven heads. Who acts: serpent, young man, man. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Pink Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/) / [The Pink Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/) / 15 # The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 15 Then the serpent made a rush at the youth with wide open jaws to swallow him at one gulp, but the young man leaped aside and drew his sword, and fought till he had cut off all the seven heads. **Who acts:** serpent, young man, man · **What happens:** make, swallow, leap, draw, fight, cut off · **To what, where:** rush, youth, serpent, one gulp, sword, seven heads This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, young man, man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg5615:23:15 # text = Then the serpent made a rush at the youth with wide open jaws to swallow him at one gulp, but the young man leaped aside and drew his sword, and fought till he had cut off all the seven heads. 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 rush rush NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 at at ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 youth youth NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 open open ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 jaws jaw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 14 to to PART TO _ 15 mark _ _ 15 swallow swallow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 advcl _ _ 16 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 19 nummod _ _ 19 gulp gulp NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 21 but but CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 leaped leap VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 26 aside aside ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 drew draw VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 29 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 fought fight VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 34 till till SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 36 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 33 ccomp _ _ 38 off off ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 39 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 42 det:predet _ _ 40 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 41 seven seven NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 42 nummod _ _ 42 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | the serpent | a rush | | the youth | then | with wide open jaws | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product | | 2 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | the serpent *not said here* | serpent | | one gulp | | | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | | 3 | **leap** | participle | the young man | | | | | aside *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **draw** | past | the serpent *not said here* | man's sword | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | | 5 | **fight** | past | the serpent *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **cut off** | past · perfect | man | all seven heads | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality | 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. **Text:** «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/14/) - next →: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/16/) - ↑ back to [The Pink Fairy Book, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/23/)