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title: And the Serpent King closed his eyes, turned round on his other side… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Serpent King closed his eyes, turned round on his other side, and began to snore so loud that the windows rattled. Who acts: Serpent King, windows. A sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 138

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And the Serpent King closed his eyes, turned round on his other side, and began to snore so loud that the windows rattled.

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**Who acts:** Serpent King, windows · **What happens:** close, turn round, begin, snore, rattle · **To what, where:** eyes, other side

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This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent King, windows), 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:pg641:4:138
# text = And the Serpent King closed his eyes, turned round on his other side, and began to snore so loud that the windows rattled.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	round	round	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	snore	snore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	xcomp	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	windows	window	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rattled	rattle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **close** | past | the Serpent King | King's eyes |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **turn round** | participle |  | King's eyes *not said here* |  | King's other side |  | round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the Serpent King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **snore** | to-infinitive | the Serpent King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **rattle** | past | the windows |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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