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title: A greedy Crow, flying near, saw all sorts of delicate food lying abo… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: A greedy Crow, flying near, saw all sorts of delicate food lying about in the kitchen, and fell a-hungering after it. " Who acts: greedy Crow, delicate food. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 57

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A greedy Crow, flying near, saw all sorts of delicate food lying about in the kitchen, and fell a-hungering after it. "

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**Who acts:** greedy Crow, delicate food · **What happens:** fly, see, lie, fall, hunger, sort · **To what, where:** sorts, kitchen, delicate food

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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 (greedy Crow, delicate food), 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:pg7128:29:57
# text = A greedy Crow, flying near, saw all sorts of delicate food lying about in the kitchen, and fell a-hungering after it. "
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	sorts	sort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	delicate	delicate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	hungering	hunger	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	after	after	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | gerund | a greedy Crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | past | a greedy Crow | all sorts of delicate food |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | delicate food *not said here* |  |  | the kitchen |  | about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location |
| 4 | **fall** | past | a greedy Crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **hunger** | gerund | a greedy Crow *not said here* |  |  |  | after kitchen |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **sort** |  |  | delicate food |  |  |  |  | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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