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title: When six of his heads were gone the snake lashed his tail with such… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When six of his heads were gone the snake lashed his tail with such fury that the gazelle and the old woman could not see each other for the dust he made. Who acts: snake, gazelle. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 152

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When six of his heads were gone the snake lashed his tail with such fury that the gazelle and the old woman could not see each other for the dust he made.

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**Who acts:** snake, gazelle · **What happens:** go, lash, not see, make · **To what, where:** six, tail, each, dust

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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, gazelle), 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:pg641:15:152
# text = When six of his heads were gone the snake lashed his tail with such fury that the gazelle and the old woman could not see each other for the dust he made.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	7	mark	_	_
2	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	lashed	lash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
26	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	25	obj	_	_
27	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past · passive |  | six of snake's heads |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lash** | past | the snake | snake's tail |  |  |  | with such fury | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Destination with fury=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **see** | could | the gazelle and the old woman | each |  |  |  | for the dust | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 4 | **make** | past | snake | the dust *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Product |

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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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