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title: And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him,… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him, and one of them very beautiful, decked in royal robes. Who acts: soldiers, King, many snakes. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 50

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And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him, and one of them very beautiful, decked in royal robes.

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**Who acts:** soldiers, King, many snakes · **What happens:** wake, sit up, see, round, deck · **To what, where:** King · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldiers, King, many snakes), 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:pg641:30:50
# text = And they woke him, and he sat up and saw many snakes all round him, and one of them very beautiful, decked in royal robes.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	woke	wake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	snakes	snake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
14	all	all	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	round	round	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	ccomp	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	decked	deck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	robes	robe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wake** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | King |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **sit up** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **see** | past | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **round** | present | many snakes | King |  |  |  | all *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 5 | **deck** | participle | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in royal robes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in robe=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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