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title: In the Indian fable every step of the action is thoroughly justified… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: In the Indian fable every step of the action is thoroughly justified, whereas the Latin form does not explain why the snake was friendly in the first instance, or why the good man was enraged afterwards; and the Greek form starts abruptly, without explaining why the serpent had killed the farmer's s
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 44

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In the Indian fable every step of the action is thoroughly justified, whereas the Latin form does not explain why the snake was friendly in the first instance, or why the good man was enraged afterwards; and the Greek form starts abruptly, without explaining why the serpent had killed the farmer's son.

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**Who acts:** step, Latin form, snake, Greek form · **What happens:** be, not explain, enrage, start, explain, kill · **To what, where:** Indian fable, first instance, good man, serpent, action · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (step, Latin form, snake, Greek form), 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:pg7128:46:44
# text = In the Indian fable every step of the action is thoroughly justified, whereas the Latin form does not explain why the snake was friendly in the first instance, or why the good man was enraged afterwards; and the Greek form starts abruptly, without explaining why the serpent had killed the farmer's son.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	fable	fable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	action	action	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	justified	justified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	explain	explain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	ccomp	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	amod	_	_
29	instance	instance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	37	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
38	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
45	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
48	explaining	explain	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
49	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	53	advmod	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux	_	_
53	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	ccomp	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	farmer	farmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	's	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | every step of the action |  |  | the Indian fable |  | justified, thoroughly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **explain** *speech: assert* | present · do-support | the Latin form |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **is** | past | the snake |  |  | the first instance |  | friendly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **enrage** | past · passive |  | the good man |  |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **start** | present | the Greek form |  |  |  |  | abruptly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **explain** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Greek form *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 7 | **kill** | past · perfect · passive |  | the serpent |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer son=Result |
| 8 | **step** |  |  | the action |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=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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