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title: Then the crane took the old purblind fish first to the bank of the o… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the crane took the old purblind fish first to the bank of the other pond, and alighted in a Varana-tree growing on the bank there. Who acts: crane, Varana tree. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 5, sentence 94

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Then the crane took the old purblind fish first to the bank of the other pond, and alighted in a Varana-tree growing on the bank there.

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**Who acts:** crane, Varana tree · **What happens:** take, alight, grow · **To what, where:** old purblind fish, bank, Varana tree

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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 (crane, Varana tree), 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:pg7128:11:94
# text = Then the crane took the old purblind fish first to the bank of the other pond, and alighted in a Varana-tree growing on the bank there.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	purblind	purblind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	Varana	Varana	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	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 | **take** | past | the crane | the old purblind fish |  | the bank of the other pond | then | first *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme to bank=Destination |
| 2 | **alight** | participle | the crane *not said here* |  |  | a Varana tree |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grow** | gerund | a Varana tree *not said here* |  |  | the bank; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bank=Location |

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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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