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title: "Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity," answered t… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity," answered the crab; "but I'm not going to let you eat _me_. Who acts: crab, you. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 123

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"Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity," answered the crab; "but I'm not going to let you eat \_me\_.

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**Who acts:** crab, you · **What happens:** eat, answer, not go, let · **To what, where:** fishes, own stupidity, crab, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crab, you), 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:pg7128:11:123
# text = "Ah! those fishes got eaten through their own stupidity," answered the crab; "but I'm not going to let you eat _me_.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	got	get	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stupidity	stupidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	'm	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | that fishes |  | fish's own stupidity |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: express* | past | the crab |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **go** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the crab *= crab* |  | the crab *= crab* |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the crab *= crab* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **eat** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:** «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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