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title: “I am so sorry, Sister Crow,” replied the Frog, “but the fact is, I… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am so sorry, Sister Crow,” replied the Frog, “but the fact is, I cannot get up the sides of this well. Who acts: Frog. 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 22

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“I am so sorry, Sister Crow,” replied the Frog, “but the fact is, I cannot get up the sides of this well.

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**Who acts:** Frog · **What happens:** be, reply, not be · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg75000:9:22
# text = “I am so sorry, Sister Crow,” replied the Frog, “but the fact is, I cannot get up the sides of this well.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sorry	sorry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Sister	sister	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Crow	crow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	compound	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	nmod	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the Frog and the get sides of this *= frog* |  |  |  |  | Sister Crow *obl*; sorry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Frog and the get sides of this |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | can · present | the Frog and the get sides of this *= frog* |  |  |  |  | the fact *obl*; get *property* | tree rules |

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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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