--- title: After a long, long time the serpent appeared, but only with its head… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: After a long, long time the serpent appeared, but only with its head out of the opening of the ant-hill, and spoke to the Brahman: "'Tis greed that brings you here, and makes you even forget the loss of your son. Who acts: serpent, Tis greed. 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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 (serpent, Tis greed), 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:pg7128:18:90 # text = After a long, long time the serpent appeared, but only with its head out of the opening of the ant-hill, and spoke to the Brahman: "'Tis greed that brings you here, and makes you even forget the loss of your son. 1 After after ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 serpent serpent NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 appeared appear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 11 but but CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 12 only only ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 15 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 16 out out ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 opening opening NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 22 ant ant NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 23 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 hill hill NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 spoke speak VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 Brahman brahman NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 32 " " PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 Tis Tis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 greed greed NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 36 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 brings bring VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 37 obj _ _ 39 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 43 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 42 obj _ _ 44 even even ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 45 forget forget VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 advcl _ _ 46 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 47 loss loss NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 50 nmod:poss _ _ 50 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appear** | past | the serpent | Tis greed | | | time | with Serpent's head out the opening of the ant hill | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the serpent *not said here* | | | | | to the Brahman | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to brahman=Co-Agent | | 3 | **bring** *in a quote* | present | Tis greed | | you | here | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | | 4 | **make** *in a quote* | present | the serpent *not said here* | you | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product | | 5 | **forget** *in a quote* | present | the serpent *not said here* | the loss of your son | | | | | tree rules | 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 89](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/89/) - next →: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/91/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/18/)