--- title: The deaths by snake-bite and tigers shall increase a hundredfold fro… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The deaths by snake-bite and tigers shall increase a hundredfold from this day, and day by day it shall continue to increase till your release. Who acts: deaths, hundredfold, snake bite. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/19/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/) / 19 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 19 The deaths by snake-bite and tigers shall increase a hundredfold from this day, and day by day it shall continue to increase till your release. **Who acts:** deaths, hundredfold, snake bite · **What happens:** increase, continue, die · **To what, where:** hundredfold This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deaths, hundredfold, snake bite), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:15:19 # text = The deaths by snake-bite and tigers shall increase a hundredfold from this day, and day by day it shall continue to increase till your release. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 deaths death NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 3 by by ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 bite bite NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 conj _ _ 9 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 hundredfold hundredfold NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 15 det _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 18 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 by by ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 continue continue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 24 to to PART TO _ 25 mark _ _ 25 increase increase VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 23 xcomp _ _ 26 till till ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 release release NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **increase** | shall | the deaths by snake bite and tigers | a hundredfold | | | day | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer hundredfold=Patient | | 2 | **continue** | shall | hundredfold | | | | day | | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 3 | **increase** | to-infinitive | hundredfold *not said here* | | | | till your release | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **die** | | snake bite and tigers | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: by=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/20/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/15/)