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title: Come out! my friend, the crow is near, And he may do you harm, I fea… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Come out! my friend, the crow is near, And he may do you harm, I fear!" Who acts: you, crow, I. 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 97

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Come out! my friend, the crow is near, And he may do you harm, I fear!"

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**Who acts:** you, crow, I · **What happens:** come out, be, do, harm, fear · **To what, where:** you

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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, crow, I), 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:pg7128:29:97
# text = Come out! my friend, the crow is near, And he may do you harm, I fear!"
1	Come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	out	out	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	harm	harm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	fear	fear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come out** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my friend *vocative*; out *property* | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the crow |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **do** | may | Crow |  | you |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **harm** | infinitive | Crow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **fear** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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