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title: The father pursued the usual brings the libation of |serpent with an… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The father pursued the usual brings the libation of |serpent with an axe, and struck milk (in the hope of getting the |off part of its tail. Who acts: father, usual, hope. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics o
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 33

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The father pursued the usual brings the libation of \|serpent with an axe, and struck milk (in the hope of getting the \|off part of its tail.

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**Who acts:** father, usual, hope · **What happens:** pursue, bring, strike, get · **To what, where:** libation, milk, hope, \|

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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 (father, usual, hope), 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:pg7128:46:33
# text = The father pursued the usual brings the libation of |serpent with an axe, and struck milk (in the hope of getting the |off part of its tail.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nsubj	_	_
6	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	libation	libation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	|	|	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	getting	get	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	|	|	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	off	off	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past | the father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | the usual | the libation of \|'s serpent with a axe |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent libation=Theme |
| 3 | **strike** | past | the father *not said here* | milk |  | the hope |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient |
| 4 | **get** | gerund | the hope *not said here* | the \| |  |  |  | off part of \|'s tail | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer \|=Stimulus |

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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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