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title: And as the snake put one of his heads through the hole that he had m… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And as the snake put one of his heads through the hole that he had made so as to get in and out comfortably, it cut it of so clean that the snake really did not feel it. Who acts: snake, hole. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and 
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 150

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And as the snake put one of his heads through the hole that he had made so as to get in and out comfortably, it cut it of so clean that the snake really did not feel it.

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**Who acts:** snake, hole · **What happens:** put, make, get, cut, not feel · **To what, where:** one, hole, sword

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, hole), 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:pg641:15:150
# text = And as the snake put one of his heads through the hole that he had made so as to get in and out comfortably, it cut it of so clean that the snake really did not feel it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	out	out	ADV	RB	_	21	conj	_	_
24	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	obl	_	_
30	so	so	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	clean	clean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	really	really	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
36	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	38	advmod	_	_
38	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	advcl	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | the snake | one of snake's heads |  | the hole |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme through hole=Destination |
| 2 | **make** | past · perfect | snake | the hole |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **get** | to-infinitive | hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  | comfortably *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cut** | past | hole | sword |  |  |  | clean *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product |
| 5 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | the snake | sword |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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