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title: A Crow once caught a fine fat Frog, and taking him in her bill she f… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Crow, Frog. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 1

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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.

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**Who acts:** Crow, Frog · **What happens:** catch, take, fly, neighbour, devour, bill · **To what, where:** fine fat, Crow, bill, roof, leisure

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow, Frog), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:9:1
# text = 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	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fat	fat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	amod	_	_
26	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	30	mark	_	_
28	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	fixed	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	devour	devour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | a Crow | a fine fat |  |  |  | once *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Theme |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | a Crow *not said here* | Crow |  | Frog's bill |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in bill=Location |
| 3 | **fly** | past | Frog | Frog's bill *not said here* |  | the roof of a neighbouring house |  | with Crow | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bill=Theme to roof=Destination |
| 4 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **devour** | to-infinitive | a Crow *not said here* | Crow |  | Frog's leisure |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 6 | **bill** |  | Frog |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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