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title: THE LION AND THE CRANE _To face page_ 2 — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: THE LION AND THE CRANE _To face page_ 2 Who acts: LION. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow 223, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow 223, sentence 5

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THE LION AND THE CRANE \_To face page\_ 2

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**Who acts:** LION · **What happens:** face · **To what, where:** page

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XXIX. the Pigeon and the Crow 223. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (LION), 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:pg7128:6:5
# text = THE LION AND THE CRANE _To face page_ 2
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	LION	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	CRANE	CRANE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	To	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	11	punct	_	_
11	2	2	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	8	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | to-infinitive | the LION and the CRANE | page |  |  |  | 2 *obl* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent page=Destination |

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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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