Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 44

In the Indian fable every step of the action is thoroughly justified, whereas the Latin form does not explain why the snake was friendly in the first instance, or why the good man was enraged afterwards; and the Greek form starts abruptly, without explaining why the serpent had killed the farmer's son.

Who acts: step, Latin form, snake, Greek form · What happens: be, not explain, enrage, start, explain, kill · To what, where: Indian fable, first instance, good man, serpent, action · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step, Latin form, snake, Greek form), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 fable	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fable	det
3	Indian	Indian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fable	amod
4	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 justified	obl
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 step	det
6	step	step	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 justified	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 action	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 action	det
9	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 step	nmod
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 justified	cop
11	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	_	12 justified	advmod
12	justified	justified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 explain	punct
14	whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	20 explain	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 form	det
16	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 form	amod
17	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 explain	nsubj
18	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 explain	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 explain	advmod
20	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 justified	conj
21	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	25 friendly	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 snake	det
23	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 friendly	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 friendly	cop
25	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 explain	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 instance	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 instance	det
28	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	29 instance	amod
29	instance	instance	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 friendly	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 enraged	punct
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 enraged	cc
32	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	37 enraged	advmod
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 man	det
34	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 man	amod
35	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 enraged	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 enraged	aux:pass
37	enraged	enrage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 explain	ccomp
38	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	37 enraged	advmod
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	44 starts	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 starts	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 form	det
42	Greek	Greek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 form	amod
43	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 starts	nsubj
44	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 justified	conj
45	abruptly	abruptly	ADV	_	44 starts	advmod
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 explaining	punct
47	without	without	SCONJ	_	48 explaining	mark
48	explaining	explain	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	44 starts	advcl
49	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	53 killed	advmod
50	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 serpent	det
51	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 killed	nsubj:pass
52	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	53 killed	aux
53	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 explaining	ccomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 farmer	det
55	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 son	nmod:poss
56	's	's	PART	_	55 farmer	case
57	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 killed	obj
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 justified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	every step of the action		the Indian fable	justified, thoroughly property	tree rules
2	not explain speech: assert	present · do-support	the Latin form				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is	past	the snake		the first instance	friendly property	tree rules
4	enrage	past · passive		the good man		afterwards property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	start	present	the Greek form			abruptly property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	explain speech: assert	gerund	the Greek form not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	kill	past · perfect · passive		the serpent			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer son=Result
8	step			the action			nom step «act transitive»: of=patient

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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