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title: He saw the snake come out of his hiding place in the roof, wriggle a… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: He saw the snake come out of his hiding place in the roof, wriggle along a beam and then drop poison on the face of the sleeping queen. Who acts: minister, 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 cl
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 91

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He saw the snake come out of his hiding place in the roof, wriggle along a beam and then drop poison on the face of the sleeping queen.

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**Who acts:** minister, snake · **What happens:** see, come out, wriggle, drop · **To what, where:** snake, hiding place, poison, face

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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 (minister, 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:pg76982:11:91
# text = He saw the snake come out of his hiding place in the roof, wriggle along a beam and then drop poison on the face of the sleeping queen.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	wriggle	wriggle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	along	along	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	drop	drop	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
22	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | minister | the snake |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come out** | infinitive | the snake *not said here* | minister's hiding place in the roof |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient place=Result |
| 3 | **wriggle** | infinitive | the snake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along a beam | vn body\_internal\_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drop** | present | minister *not said here* | poison |  | the face of the sleeping queen | then |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent poison=Theme on face=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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