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title: So the crow flew up into the air, and looking round about saw the po… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: So the crow flew up into the air, and looking round about saw the poor goat striving to release himself from the meshes of a hunter’s net. Who acts: crow, looking, poor goat. A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21, with its depend
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 116

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So the crow flew up into the air, and looking round about saw the poor goat striving to release himself from the meshes of a hunter’s net.

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**Who acts:** crow, looking, poor goat · **What happens:** fly up, look round, see, strive, release · **To what, where:** air, poor goat, goat, meshes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, looking, poor goat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg65965:21:117
# text = So the crow flew up into the air, and looking round about saw the poor goat striving to release himself from the meshes of a hunter’s net.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	csubj	_	_
12	round	round	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	striving	strive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	release	release	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	obj	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	meshes	mesh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	hunter	hunter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly up** | past | the crow |  |  |  |  | into the air *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result |
| 2 | **look round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | about, round *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **see** | past | looking | the poor goat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strive** | gerund | the poor goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **release** | to-infinitive | the poor goat *not said here* | goat |  | the meshes of a hunter's net |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source |

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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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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