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title: From that day tigers and serpents, acting under the orders of their… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: From that day tigers and serpents, acting under the orders of their kings, united in killing as many persons and cattle as possible. Who acts: day tigers. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 9, sentence 25

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From that day tigers and serpents, acting under the orders of their kings, united in killing as many persons and cattle as possible.

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**Who acts:** day tigers · **What happens:** act, kill, order · **To what, where:** orders, many persons, kings

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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 (day tigers), 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:pg7128:15:25
# text = From that day tigers and serpents, acting under the orders of their kings, united in killing as many persons and cattle as possible.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	tigers	tiger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	serpents	serpent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	acting	act	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
9	under	under	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	united	united	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **act** | gerund | day tigers and serpents *not said here* |  |  | the orders of serpents's kings |  |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **kill** | gerund | day tigers and serpents *not said here* | many persons and cattle |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme |
| 3 | **order** |  |  | serpents's kings |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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