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title: "You'll come to grief again, I know-- It is your nature to do so; If… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "You'll come to grief again, I know-- It is your nature to do so; If people make a dish of meat, 'Tis not for little birds to eat." Who acts: You, Dinner, grief, people. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 103

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"You'll come to grief again, I know-- It is your nature to do so; If people make a dish of meat, 'Tis not for little birds to eat."

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**Who acts:** You, Dinner, grief, people · **What happens:** come, know, be, do, make, eat · **To what, where:** grief, nature, dish · **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 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, Dinner, grief, people), 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:pg7128:29:103
# text = "You'll come to grief again, I know-- It is your nature to do so; If people make a dish of meat, 'Tis not for little birds to eat."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	'll	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	again	again	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	meat	meat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	'	'	PUNCT	``	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Tis	Tis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
31	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** *in a quote* | future | You |  |  | grief | again |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **know** *in a quote* | present | Dinner |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | grief | your nature |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Dinner *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **make** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | present | people | a dish of meat |  |  |  | Tis for little birds *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Product |
| 6 | **eat** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | people *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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