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title: I am the king of serpents, and the son of Adisesha, who is now pinin… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: I am the king of serpents, and the son of Adisesha, who is now pining away in agony for my disappearance. Who acts: I, son, my. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8, sentence 63

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I am the king of serpents, and the son of Adisesha, who is now pining away in agony for my disappearance.

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**Who acts:** I, son, my · **What happens:** be, pine away, disappear · **To what, where:** king, agony

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, my), 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:pg7128:14:63
# text = I am the king of serpents, and the son of Adisesha, who is now pining away in agony for my disappearance.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Adisesha	Adisesha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	pining	pine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | I | the king and the son of Adisesha |  |  |  | of serpents | tree rules |
| 2 | **pine away** | present · progressive | the son of Adisesha |  |  | agony | now | for my disappearance; away *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for disappearance=Theme |
| 3 | **disappear** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: poss=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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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