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title: As soon as the Crow had made her bill nice and sharp she returned fr… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the Crow had made her bill nice and sharp she returned from the stone, and looked about for the Frog. Who acts: gutter. 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 17

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As soon as the Crow had made her bill nice and sharp she returned from the stone, and looked about for the Frog.

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**Who acts:** gutter · **What happens:** make, return, look · **To what, where:** Crow, bill, stone

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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 (gutter), 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:pg75000:9:17
# text = As soon as the Crow had made her bill nice and sharp she returned from the stone, and looked about for the Frog.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Crow	Crow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | the Crow |  |  |  | gutter *obj*; bill *obj*; soon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | gutter | bill *not said here* |  | the stone |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent bill=Theme from stone=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the Frog; about *property* | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for frog=Theme |

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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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