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title: "No tufted crane am I--no, no! — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: "No tufted crane am I--no, no! 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 99

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"No tufted crane am I--no, no!

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**What happens:** tuft, be · **To what, where:** Dinner

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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: 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:pg7128:29:99
# text = "No tufted crane am I--no, no!
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
3	tufted	tuft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |  | Dinner |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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