--- title: The crane seeing him, as he was perched on a tree looking for food,… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: The crane seeing him, as he was perched on a tree looking for food, asked, "What ails thee, friend?" Who acts: crane, tree. 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. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/9/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Indian Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/) / [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/) / 9 # Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1, sentence 9 The crane seeing him, as he was perched on a tree looking for food, asked, "What ails thee, friend?" **Who acts:** crane, tree · **What happens:** see, perch, look, ask, ail · **To what, where:** throat, tree, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7128:7:9 # text = The crane seeing him, as he was perched on a tree looking for food, asked, "What ails thee, friend?" 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 crane crane NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 3 seeing see VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 2 acl _ _ 4 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 perched perch VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ _ 10 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 13 looking look VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 12 acl _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 17 asked ask VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 21 nsubj _ _ 21 ails ail VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 ccomp _ _ 22 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 21 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ? ? PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 26 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | gerund | the crane *not said here* | throat | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | | 2 | **perch** | past · passive | | throat | | a tree | | | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on tree=Destination | | 3 | **look** | gerund | a tree *not said here* | | | | | for food | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme | | 4 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the crane | | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **ail** *in a quote* | present | | thee | | | | friend *obl* | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/10/) - ↑ back to [Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7128/7/)