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title: But a Tibetan audience is one of the best imaginable, and their open… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: But a Tibetan audience is one of the best imaginable, and their open sympathy and appreciation soon melt the frosts of reserve, and the words flow freely. Who acts: Tibetan audience, open sympathy, words. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening, with
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# Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 24

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But a Tibetan audience is one of the best imaginable, and their open sympathy and appreciation soon melt the frosts of reserve, and the words flow freely.

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**Who acts:** Tibetan audience, open sympathy, words · **What happens:** be, melt, flow · **To what, where:** one, frosts

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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 (Tibetan audience, open sympathy, words), 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:pg75000:1:24
# text = But a Tibetan audience is one of the best imaginable, and their open sympathy and appreciation soon melt the frosts of reserve, and the words flow freely.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	imaginable	imaginable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	appreciation	appreciation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	melt	melt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	frosts	frost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	reserve	reserve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flow	flow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
29	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a Tibetan audience | one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **melt** | present | disclaimers's open sympathy and appreciation | the frosts of reserve |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient frost=Result |
| 3 | **flow** | present | the words |  |  |  |  | freely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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