--- title: The Frog and the Crow. — Folk tales from Tibet · full text with trees description: The Frog and the Crow., «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: A Crow once caught a fine fat Frog, and taking him in her bill she flew with him to the roof of a neighbouring house in or --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/9/) [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/) / [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/) / The Frog and the Crow. # The Frog and the Crow. The Frog and the Crow. of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor: the whole text, 24 sentences and 539 words. The small number after every sentence leads to its own page with its syntax tree and pragmatics, parsed by Mova itself. A Crow once caught a fine fat Frog, and taking him in her bill she flew with him to the roof of a neighbouring house in order to devour him at her leisure.[1](1/ "tree and pragmatics") As she alighted on the roof of the house the Frog gave an audible chuckle.[2](2/ "tree and pragmatics") “What are you laughing at, Brother Frog?” said the Crow.[3](3/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, nothing, Sister Crow,” said the Frog; “never mind me.[4](4/ "tree and pragmatics") I was just thinking to myself that, as it fortunately happens, my Father lives close by here, on this very roof, and as he is an exceedingly fierce, strong man, he will certainly avenge my death if anyone injures me.”[5](5/ "tree and pragmatics") The Crow did not quite like this, and thinking it as well to be on the safe side she hopped off to another corner of the roof near to where a gutter led away the rain water by means of a small hole in the parapet and a wooden spout.[6](6/ "tree and pragmatics") She paused here for a moment and was just about to begin to swallow the Frog when the Frog gave another chuckle.[7](7/ "tree and pragmatics") “What are you laughing at this time, Brother Frog?” asked the Crow.[8](8/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, it’s only a small matter, Sister Crow, hardly worth mentioning,” replied the Frog, “but it just occurred to me that my Uncle, who is even a stronger and fiercer man than my Father, lives in this very gutter, and that if anybody was to do me an injury here they would have a very small chance of escaping from his clutches.”[9](9/ "tree and pragmatics") The Crow was somewhat alarmed at hearing this, and she thought that, on the whole, it would be safer to leave the roof altogether; so again picking up the Frog in her bill she flew off to the ground below, and alighted near the edge of a well.[10](10/ "tree and pragmatics") Here she placed the Frog upon the ground and was just about to eat him when the Frog said:[11](11/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, Sister Crow, I notice your bill seems rather blunt.[12](12/ "tree and pragmatics") Before you begin to eat me don’t you think it would be a good thing to sharpen it a little.[13](13/ "tree and pragmatics") You can strop it very nicely on that flat stone over there.”[14](14/ "tree and pragmatics") The Crow, thinking this was a good idea, took two or three hops towards the stone, and began sharpening her bill.[15](15/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as she had turned her back the Frog gave one desperate jump, and dived into the well.[16](16/ "tree and pragmatics") As soon as the Crow had made her bill nice and sharp she returned from the stone, and looked about for the Frog.[17](17/ "tree and pragmatics") Not finding him where she had left him she hopped to the edge of the well and peeped over, craning her head from side to side.[18](18/ "tree and pragmatics") Presently she spied the Frog in the water, and called out to him:[19](19/ "tree and pragmatics") “Oh, Brother Frog, I was afraid you were lost.[20](20/ "tree and pragmatics") My bill is quite nice and sharp now, so come along up and be eaten.”[21](21/ "tree and pragmatics") “I am so sorry, Sister Crow,” replied the Frog, “but the fact is, I cannot get up the sides of this well.[22](22/ "tree and pragmatics") The best thing would be for you to come down here to eat me.”[23](23/ "tree and pragmatics") And so saying he dived to the bottom of the well.[24](24/ "tree and pragmatics") - ← previous: [The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/8/) - next →: [The Hare and the Lions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/10/) - ↑ back to [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/)