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title: (9) ‘Die Siebenkopfige Schlange,’ from Schmidt’s Griechische Mahrchen. — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: (9) ‘Die Siebenkopfige Schlange,’ from Schmidt’s Griechische Mahrchen. Who acts: 9. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 57

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(9) ‘Die Siebenkopfige Schlange,’ from Schmidt’s Griechische Mahrchen.

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**Who acts:** 9 · **What happens:** die · **To what, where:** Siebenkopfige, Griechische

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (9), 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:pg640:12:57
# text = (9) ‘Die Siebenkopfige Schlange,’ from Schmidt’s Griechische Mahrchen.
1	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	9	9	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	‘	‘	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Siebenkopfige	Siebenkopfige	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Schlange	Schlange	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	Schmidt	Schmidt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	Griechische	Griechische	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
14	Mahrchen	Mahrchen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | infinitive | 9 | Siebenkopfige |  | Schmidt's Griechische |  |  | tree rules |

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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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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