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title: And when the great serpent lay dead at his feet he loosed the bonds… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And when the great serpent lay dead at his feet he loosed the bonds of the king’s daughter, and she flung herself into his arms and said, ‘You have saved me from that monster, and now you shall be my husband, for my father has made a proclamation that whoever could slay the serpent should have his d
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 16

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And when the great serpent lay dead at his feet he loosed the bonds of the king’s daughter, and she flung herself into his arms and said, ‘You have saved me from that monster, and now you shall be my husband, for my father has made a proclamation that whoever could slay the serpent should have his daughter to wife.’

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**Who acts:** great serpent, serpent, daughter, You, father, proclamation · **What happens:** lay, loose, fling, say, save, be · **To what, where:** feet, bonds, daughter, arms, me, husband · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (great serpent, serpent, daughter, You), 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:pg5615:23:16
# text = And when the great serpent lay dead at his feet he loosed the bonds of the king’s daughter, and she flung herself into his arms and said, ‘You have saved me from that monster, and now you shall be my husband, for my father has made a proclamation that whoever could slay the serpent should have his daughter to wife.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
7	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	loosed	loose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	saved	save	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	ccomp	_	_
35	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	38	det	_	_
38	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
41	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
42	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
43	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
44	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	cop	_	_
45	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
49	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
51	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	proclamation	proclamation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
55	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
56	whoever	whoever	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	58	nsubj	_	_
57	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
58	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	acl:relcl	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	60	det	_	_
60	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
61	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	62	aux	_	_
62	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	parataxis	_	_
63	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	obj	_	_
65	to	to	PART	TO	_	66	mark	_	_
66	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present | the great serpent |  |  | serpent's feet |  | dead *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **loose** | past | serpent | the bonds of the king's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bond=Patient |
| 3 | **fling** | past | daughter | daughter |  | serpent's arms |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into arm=Destination |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | daughter *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **save** | present · perfect | You | me |  |  |  | from that monster | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from monster=Source |
| 6 | **is a** | shall | you | my husband |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | present · perfect | my father |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **slay** | could | a proclamation | the serpent |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient |
| 9 | **have** | should | a proclamation | serpent's daughter |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient |
| 10 | **bond** |  |  | the king's daughter |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon 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 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.

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