Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 86

But the serpent escaped death by the will of fate, and in a rage bit the Brahman's son with its sharp fangs, and he fell down dead at once.

Who acts: serpent, son · What happens: escape, fall down · To what, where: death

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, son), 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 escaped	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaped	nsubj
4	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaped	obj
6	by	by	ADP	_	10 fate	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fate	det
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fate	aux
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 fate	case
10	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 son	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 son	cc
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 bit	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bit	det
15	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 bit	compound
16	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 son	compound
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Brahman	det
18	Brahman	Brahman	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 son	nmod:poss
19	's	's	PART	_	18 Brahman	case
20	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 escaped	obl
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 fangs	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fangs	nmod:poss
23	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 fangs	amod
24	fangs	fang	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 son	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 fell	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fell	cc
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 fell	nsubj
28	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 escaped	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 fell	compound:prt
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 fell	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	32 once	case
32	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 fell	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 escaped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	escape	past	the serpent	death				by the fate; the Brahman's bit son with Serpent's sharp fangs obl	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme death=Initial_Location
2	fall down	past	son					dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at once=Location

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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