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title: THE FOX AND THE CRAFTY CRAB — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics
description: THE FOX AND THE CRAFTY CRAB A sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 95

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THE FOX AND THE CRAFTY CRAB

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**To what, where:** FOX

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This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg65965:5:96
# text = THE FOX AND THE CRAFTY CRAB
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FOX	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	CRAFTY	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	CRAB	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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