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title: 118-22), where the crane becomes "a great Paragone of India (of thos… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: 118-22), where the crane becomes "a great Paragone of India (of those that liue a hundredth yeares and neuer mue their feathers)." Who acts: crane, neuer. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 8

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118-22), where the crane becomes "a great Paragone of India (of those that liue a hundredth yeares and neuer mue their feathers)."

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**Who acts:** crane, neuer · **What happens:** become, feather

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane, neuer), 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:pg7128:38:8
# text = 118-22), where the crane becomes "a great Paragone of India (of those that liue a hundredth yeares and neuer mue their feathers)."
1	118-22	118-22	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Paragone	Paragone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	India	India	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	liue	liue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	hundredth	hundredth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	yeares	yeare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	neuer	neuer	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	nsubj	_	_
24	mue	mue	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	26	nsubj	_	_
25	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	feathers	feather	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | present | the crane |  |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **feather** *in a quote* |  | neuer |  |  |  |  |  | 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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