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title: While they are asleep, a snake that lives in the roof of the bridal… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: While they are asleep, a snake that lives in the roof of the bridal chamber will drop poison from his fangs on to the princess’ cheek. Who acts: parrot, snake. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 75

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While they are asleep, a snake that lives in the roof of the bridal chamber will drop poison from his fangs on to the princess’ cheek.

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**Who acts:** parrot, snake · **What happens:** be, live, drop · **To what, where:** roof, poison, fangs

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (parrot, snake), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76982:11:75
# text = While they are asleep, a snake that lives in the roof of the bridal chamber will drop poison from his fangs on to the princess’ cheek.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
19	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fangs	fang	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | parrot |  |  |  |  | asleep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **live** | present | a snake |  |  | the roof of the bridal chamber |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in roof=Location |
| 3 | **drop** | future | a snake | poison |  | snake's fangs on the princess and cheek |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme from fang=Destination |

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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:** «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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