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title: For certain special reasons this quest proved more difficult than I… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: For certain special reasons this quest proved more difficult than I had anticipated. Who acts: quest, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 14

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For certain special reasons this quest proved more difficult than I had anticipated.

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**Who acts:** quest, I · **What happens:** prove, anticipate

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (quest, I), 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:pg75000:1:14
# text = For certain special reasons this quest proved more difficult than I had anticipated.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	special	special	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	reasons	reason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	quest	quest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	proved	prove	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	_
10	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	anticipated	anticipate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prove** | past | this quest |  |  |  |  | for certain special reasons | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **anticipate** | past · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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