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title: The son sees the gold, |end, as it could not forget the and thinking… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The son sees the gold, |end, as it could not forget the and thinking the serpent's hole |blow.---- full of treasure determines to | slay the snake. Who acts: son, gold, hole, thinking. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., with its dependency tree and the
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 26

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The son sees the gold, \|end, as it could not forget the and thinking the serpent's hole \|blow.---- full of treasure determines to \| slay the snake.

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**Who acts:** son, gold, hole, thinking · **What happens:** see, not forget, think, blow, determine, slay · **To what, where:** gold, the, hole, snake

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, gold, hole, thinking), 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:pg7128:46:26
# text = The son sees the gold, |end, as it could not forget the and thinking the serpent's hole |blow.---- full of treasure determines to | slay the snake.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sees	see	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	|	|	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	forget	forget	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
17	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	csubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	's	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	|	|	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	----	----	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	determines	determine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	|	|	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | the son | the gold |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **forget** | could | gold | the |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund |  | the serpent's hole |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **blow** | infinitive | the serpent's hole *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **determine** | present | thinking |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 6 | **slay** | infinitive | thinking *not said here* | the snake |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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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