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title: “Oh, Sister Crow, I notice your bill seems rather blunt. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Oh, Sister Crow, I notice your bill seems rather blunt. Who acts: Frog, your. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 12

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“Oh, Sister Crow, I notice your bill seems rather blunt.

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**Who acts:** Frog, your · **What happens:** notice, seem, bill · **To what, where:** bill

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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 (Frog, your), 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:pg75000:9:12
# text = “Oh, Sister Crow, I notice your bill seems rather blunt.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	notice	notice	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	blunt	blunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **notice** *in a quote* | present | the Frog *= frog* | your bill |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus |
| 2 | **seem** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  | blunt *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bill** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | 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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