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title: And by-and-by he met a Tiger, and then a Wolf, and a Dog, and an Eag… — Indian Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: And by-and-by he met a Tiger, and then a Wolf, and a Dog, and an Eagle, and all these, when they saw the tender little morsel, said: "Lambikin! Who acts: Vulture, Wolf. A sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 2, sentence 140

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And by-and-by he met a Tiger, and then a Wolf, and a Dog, and an Eagle, and all these, when they saw the tender little morsel, said: "Lambikin!

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**Who acts:** Vulture, Wolf · **What happens:** meet, see, say · **To what, where:** Tiger, tender little morsel · **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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vulture, Wolf), 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:pg7128:8:140
# text = And by-and-by he met a Tiger, and then a Wolf, and a Dog, and an Eagle, and all these, when they saw the tender little morsel, said: "Lambikin!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
2	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
27	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	37	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	morsel	morsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
39	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	Lambikin	Lambikin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Vulture | a Tiger |  |  |  | a Wolf and a Dog *obl*; a Eagle *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Wolf | the tender little morsel |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer morsel=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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