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title: The crow, who wanted her supper very badly, hopped quickly towards h… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The crow, who wanted her supper very badly, hopped quickly towards him, and was stooping forward to peck at his tongue when the fox gave a snap, and caught him by the wing. Who acts: crow, fox. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, with its dependenc
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# The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 92

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The crow, who wanted her supper very badly, hopped quickly towards him, and was stooping forward to peck at his tongue when the fox gave a snap, and caught him by the wing.

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**Who acts:** crow, fox · **What happens:** want, hop, stoop, peck, give, catch · **To what, where:** supper, snap, Michael

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This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, fox), 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:pg2435:24:92
# text = The crow, who wanted her supper very badly, hopped quickly towards him, and was stooping forward to peck at his tongue when the fox gave a snap, and caught him by the wing.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	badly	badly	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	stooping	stoop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
19	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	snap	snap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
34	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	by	by	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	wing	wing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **want** | past | the crow | spite's supper |  |  |  | badly *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot supper=Theme |
| 2 | **hop** | past | the crow |  |  |  |  | towards Michael; quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards he=Destination |
| 3 | **stoop** | past · progressive | the crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **peck** | to-infinitive | the crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at Michael's tongue | vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at tongue=Patient |
| 5 | **give** | past | the fox | a snap |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snap=Theme |
| 6 | **catch** | past | the crow *not said here* | Michael |  |  |  | by the wing | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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