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title: The wild crow who was now married drove with her for the first three… — The Pink Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The wild crow who was now married drove with her for the first three miles; the other crow could not come because she had a bad headache. Who acts: wild crow, other crow, Gerda. A sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 155

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The wild crow who was now married drove with her for the first three miles; the other crow could not come because she had a bad headache.

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**Who acts:** wild crow, other crow, Gerda · **What happens:** marry, drive, not come, have · **To what, where:** wild crow, bad headache

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This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wild crow, other crow, Gerda), 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:pg5615:9:155
# text = The wild crow who was now married drove with her for the first three miles; the other crow could not come because she had a bad headache.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	married	marry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	15	amod	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
22	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	parataxis	_	_
23	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	headache	headache	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marry** | past · passive |  | the wild crow |  |  | now |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **drive** | past | the wild crow |  |  |  |  | with Gerda; for the first three miles | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **come** | could | the other crow |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | past | Gerda | a bad headache |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent headache=Patient |

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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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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