--- title: "Who is this tufted crane I see Lying where he's no right to be? — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: "Who is this tufted crane I see Lying where he's no right to be? Who acts: Dinner, tufted crane, Crow. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/96/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/) / 96 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23, sentence 96 "Who is this tufted crane I see Lying where he's no right to be? **Who acts:** Dinner, tufted crane, Crow · **What happens:** tuft, be, see, lie · **To what, where:** tufted crane, right 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 (Dinner, tufted crane, Crow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:29:96 # text = "Who is this tufted crane I see Lying where he's no right to be? 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 det _ _ 5 tufted tuft VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 amod _ _ 6 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 see see VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 Lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 xcomp _ _ 10 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 11 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 14 det _ _ 14 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tuft** *in a quote* | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | this tufted crane | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **see** *in a quote* | present | Dinner | this tufted crane *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | this tufted crane *not said here* | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | Crow | no right | | | | | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 95](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/95/) - next →: [sentence 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/97/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/29/)