--- title: Next day he went again and found a denar, so he thought to himself:… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: Next day he went again and found a denar, so he thought to himself: "This ant-hill is surely full of golden denars; I'll kill the serpent, and take them all for myself." Who acts: son, ant hill. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, ant hill), 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:pg7128:18:84 # text = Next day he went again and found a denar, so he thought to himself: "This ant-hill is surely full of golden denars; I'll kill the serpent, and take them all for myself." 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl:unmarked _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 again again ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 denar denar NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 24 punct _ _ 17 " " PUNCT `` _ 24 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 21 det _ _ 19 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 22 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 23 surely surely ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 24 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 conj _ _ 25 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 denars denar NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 31 punct _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 'll will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 kill kill VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 parataxis _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 conj _ _ 37 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 37 nmod:unmarked _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 myself myself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 31 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 " " PUNCT '' _ 31 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** | past | son | | | | again; day | | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **find** | past | son *not said here* | a denar | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denar=Topic | | 3 | **think** *speech: other* | past | son | | son | | | | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | this ant hill | | | | | of golden denars; full, surely *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **kill** *in a quote* | future | son | the serpent | | | | | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme | | 6 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | son *not said here* | respects | | | | for son | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for myself=Beneficiary | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/85/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)