Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10, sentence 74

But the snake refused, saying that it could not go to its father till it was released from this stranger, who had saved it from a most terrible death, and whose slave it therefore was.

Who acts: snake, highness, slave · What happens: refuse, say, not go, release, save, slave · To what, where: highness, stranger, terrible death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, highness, slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 refused	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 refused	nsubj
4	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 refused	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 father	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	till	till	SCONJ	_	18 released	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 released	nsubj:pass
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 released	aux:pass
18	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 go	advcl
19	from	from	ADP	_	21 stranger	case
20	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 stranger	det
21	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 released	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 saved	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 saved	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 saved	aux
25	saved	save	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 stranger	acl:relcl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 saved	obj
27	from	from	ADP	_	31 death	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 death	det
29	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	30 terrible	advmod
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 death	amod
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 saved	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 was	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 was	cc
34	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	35 slave	nmod:poss
35	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 was	nsubj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 slave	nsubj
37	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	38 was	advmod
38	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 refused	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 refused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	the snake				vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the snake not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go	could	highness			to highness's father	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to father=Initial_Location
4	release	past · passive		highness	this stranger		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
5	save	past · perfect · passive		this stranger	a terrible death		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary it=Theme
6	slave		highness				tree rules
7	be	past	slave			therefore property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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.

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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