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title: ‘Oh!’ she answered, ‘I am chained here till a horrible serpent with… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Oh!’ she answered, ‘I am chained here till a horrible serpent with seven heads comes to eat me. Who acts: girl. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 2

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‘Oh!’ she answered, ‘I am chained here till a horrible serpent with seven heads comes to eat me.

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**Who acts:** girl · **What happens:** answer, chain, come, eat · **To what, where:** I, me · **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 (girl), 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:pg5615:23:2
# text = ‘Oh!’ she answered, ‘I am chained here till a horrible serpent with seven heads comes to eat me.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	6	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	chained	chain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	nsubj	_	_
12	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
20	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | girl |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **chain** | present · passive |  | I |  | here | till a horrible serpent with seven heads |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **come** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | me |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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