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title: Immediately the pieces joined together, the snake moved itself and b… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Immediately the pieces joined together, the snake moved itself and became alive and then both hurried away. Who acts: pieces. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 28

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Immediately the pieces joined together, the snake moved itself and became alive and then both hurried away.

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**Who acts:** pieces · **What happens:** join, move, become, hurry away · **To what, where:** pieces, snake, both

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces), 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:pg7277:46:28
# text = Immediately the pieces joined together, the snake moved itself and became alive and then both hurried away.
1	Immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
4	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	hurried	hurry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | participle |  | the pieces *not said here* |  |  |  | together *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **move** | past | the pieces | snake |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | past | the pieces *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alive *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **hurry away** | participle · passive |  | both |  |  | then | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:** «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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