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title: “Truly,” said the second crow; “for to-morrow, when midday strikes,… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “Truly,” said the second crow; “for to-morrow, when midday strikes, the bridge over the Gold Stream will break just as they are driving over it. Who acts: second crow, midday, Gold Stream, crows. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, with its dependen
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 8

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“Truly,” said the second crow; “for to-morrow, when midday strikes, the bridge over the Gold Stream will break just as they are driving over it.

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**Who acts:** second crow, midday, Gold Stream, crows · **What happens:** say, strike, break, drive · **To what, where:** bridge, Stream · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second crow, midday, Gold Stream, crows), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2435:2:8
# text = “Truly,” said the second crow; “for to-morrow, when midday strikes, the bridge over the Gold Stream will break just as they are driving over it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	midday	midday	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	strikes	strike	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
28	just	just	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the second crow |  |  |  |  | truly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **strike** *in a quote* | present | midday | the bridge |  |  |  | for morrow | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **break** *in a quote* | future | the Gold Stream |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **drive** *in a quote* | present · progressive | crows *= crow* |  |  | Stream |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory |

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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:** «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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