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title: It stretched its huge head, in which the eyes glittered fiercely, am… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: It stretched its huge head, in which the eyes glittered fiercely, among the branches, searching for the nest in which the little children lay. Who acts: serpent, eyes, little children. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 90

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It stretched its huge head, in which the eyes glittered fiercely, among the branches, searching for the nest in which the little children lay.

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**Who acts:** serpent, eyes, little children · **What happens:** stretch, glitter, search, lay · **To what, where:** huge head, nest

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This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), 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 (serpent, eyes, little children), 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:pg640:24:90
# text = It stretched its huge head, in which the eyes glittered fiercely, among the branches, searching for the nest in which the little children lay.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	among	among	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | serpent | serpent's huge head |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient |
| 2 | **glitter** | past | the eyes |  |  |  |  | among the branches; fiercely *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **search** | gerund | the eyes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the nest | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for nest=Theme |
| 4 | **lay** | present | the little children |  |  | the nest |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination |

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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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