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title: Finally, in another place, he saved a serpent, which was also handed… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Finally, in another place, he saved a serpent, which was also handed over to him and now they made a party of four--the dog behind Jenik, the cat behind the dog, and the serpent behind the cat. Who acts: father, rejoicings. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, wi
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 17

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Finally, in another place, he saved a serpent, which was also handed over to him and now they made a party of four--the dog behind Jenik, the cat behind the dog, and the serpent behind the cat.

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**Who acts:** father, rejoicings · **What happens:** save, hand over, make · **To what, where:** serpent, place, father, party

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, rejoicings), 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:pg7277:8:17
# text = Finally, in another place, he saved a serpent, which was also handed over to him and now they made a party of four--the dog behind Jenik, the cat behind the dog, and the serpent behind the cat.
1	Finally	finally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saved	save	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
14	also	also	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
30	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
35	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	serpent	serpent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
42	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **save** | past | father | a serpent |  | another place |  | the serpent behind the cat *obl*; finally *property* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme |
| 2 | **hand over** | past · passive |  | a serpent | father |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination |
| 3 | **make** | past | rejoicings *= rejoicing* | a party of four and the dog behind Jenik |  |  | now |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset party=Product |

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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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