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title: The serpent |fearing its vengeance he brought appears after a long d… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The serpent |fearing its vengeance he brought appears after a long delay at |food and honey to its lair, and the mouth of its lair, and |begged reconciliation. Who acts: serpent, usual. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., with its dependency tree and th
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 35

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The serpent \|fearing its vengeance he brought appears after a long delay at \|food and honey to its lair, and the mouth of its lair, and \|begged reconciliation.

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**Who acts:** serpent, usual · **What happens:** fear, bring, appear, beg · **To what, where:** vengeance, mouth

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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 (serpent, usual), 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:pg7128:46:35
# text = The serpent |fearing its vengeance he brought appears after a long delay at |food and honey to its lair, and the mouth of its lair, and |begged reconciliation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	|	|	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	fearing	fear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	appears	appear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	|	|	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	lair	lair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	|	|	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	begged	beg	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	reconciliation	reconciliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **fear** | gerund | the serpent *not said here* | gold's vengeance |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vengeance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bring** | past | usual | gold's vengeance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | present | the serpent | the mouth of gold's lair |  |  | after a long delay at food to gold's lair and honey |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **beg** *speech: request* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |

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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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