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title: The crab, on hearing the ill news "called to Parliament all the Fish… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The crab, on hearing the ill news "called to Parliament all the Fishes of the Lake," and before all are devoured destroys the Paragon, as in the Jataka, and returned to the remaining fishes, who "all with one consent gave hir many a thanke." Who acts: crab, one consent. A sentence of «Indian Fairy T
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# Indian Fairy Tales, VII. the Cruel Crane Outwitted., sentence 9

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The crab, on hearing the ill news "called to Parliament all the Fishes of the Lake," and before all are devoured destroys the Paragon, as in the Jataka, and returned to the remaining fishes, who "all with one consent gave hir many a thanke."

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**Who acts:** crab, one consent · **What happens:** hear, call, devour, destroy, return, give · **To what, where:** ill news, Parliament, all, Paragon, hir · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (crab, one consent), 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:pg7128:38:9
# text = The crab, on hearing the ill news "called to Parliament all the Fishes of the Lake," and before all are devoured destroys the Paragon, as in the Jataka, and returned to the remaining fishes, who "all with one consent gave hir many a thanke."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crab	crab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	appos	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Parliament	Parliament	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Lake	Lake	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	devoured	devour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
26	destroys	destroy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Paragon	Paragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	Jataka	Jataka	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fishes	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	44	nsubj	_	_
43	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	conj	_	_
45	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	48	mark	_	_
46	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	47	nummod	_	_
47	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
48	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	advcl	_	_
49	hir	hir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	thanke	thanke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | the ill news |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **call** *in a quote* | participle |  | the ill news *not said here* | Parliament |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to parliament=Recipient |
| 3 | **devour** | present · passive |  | all |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **destroy** | present | the crab | the Paragon |  |  |  | as the Jataka | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paragon=Patient |
| 5 | **return** | past |  |  |  |  |  | to the remaining fishes *result* | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to fish=Result |
| 6 | **give** *in a quote* | past | one consent | hir |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hir=Recipient thanke=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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