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title: Now's my time!" thought Mr. Crow, and alighted on a dish containing… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Now's my time!" thought Mr. Crow, and alighted on a dish containing some dainty food. Who acts: dish. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 88

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Now's my time!" thought Mr. Crow, and alighted on a dish containing some dainty food.

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**Who acts:** dish · **What happens:** be, think, alight, contain · **To what, where:** time, Mr. Crow, dish, dainty 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 (dish), 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:pg7128:29:88
# text = Now's my time!" thought Mr. Crow, and alighted on a dish containing some dainty food.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dish	dish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	containing	contain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	dainty	dainty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | my time |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | past |  | Mr. Crow |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot crow=Theme |
| 3 | **alight** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  | a dish |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **contain** *in a quote* | gerund | a dish *not said here* | some dainty food |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=Theme |

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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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