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title: The crane thinking "I will sound him," settled on a branch just over… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: The crane thinking "I will sound him," settled on a branch just over him, and in conversation spoke this first verse: Who acts: crane, I. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 18

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The crane thinking "I will sound him," settled on a branch just over him, and in conversation spoke this first verse:

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**Who acts:** crane, I · **What happens:** think, sound, settle, speak · **To what, where:** Crane, first verse, conversation · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crane, 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:pg7128:7:18
# text = The crane thinking "I will sound him," settled on a branch just over him, and in conversation spoke this first verse:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	settled	settle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	just	just	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	over	over	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	verse	verse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the crane *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **sound** *in a quote* | future | the crane *= crane* | Crane |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 3 | **settle** | participle | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over bone; on a branch | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on branch=Topic |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | the crane | this first verse |  | conversation |  |  | 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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