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title: The Crow pretended to feed along with the Pigeon, but ever and anon… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The Crow pretended to feed along with the Pigeon, but ever and anon he would turn back, peck to bits some heap of cow-dung, and eat a fat worm. Who acts: Crow, anon. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 66

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The Crow pretended to feed along with the Pigeon, but ever and anon he would turn back, peck to bits some heap of cow-dung, and eat a fat worm.

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**Who acts:** Crow, anon · **What happens:** pretend, feed, turn back, peck, eat · **To what, where:** bits, fat worm

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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 (Crow, anon), 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:pg7128:29:66
# text = The Crow pretended to feed along with the Pigeon, but ever and anon he would turn back, peck to bits some heap of cow-dung, and eat a fat worm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	feed	feed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Pigeon	Pigeon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	anon	anon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	back	back	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	peck	peck	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	bits	bit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	dung	dung	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	eat	eat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | past | the Crow |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **feed** | to-infinitive | the Crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along the Pigeon | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **turn back** | would | anon |  |  |  |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **peck** | infinitive | anon *not said here* | bits  some heap of cow dung |  |  |  |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient |
| 5 | **eat** | infinitive |  | a fat worm |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=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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