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title: He soon came across her stalking up and down near her den, very much… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He soon came across her stalking up and down near her den, very much perturbed at the disappearance of her lord and master. Who acts: Hare, lord. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 33

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He soon came across her stalking up and down near her den, very much perturbed at the disappearance of her lord and master.

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**Who acts:** Hare, lord · **What happens:** come, stalk, perturb, disappear · **To what, where:** den, disappearance

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, lord), 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:pg75000:10:33
# text = He soon came across her stalking up and down near her den, very much perturbed at the disappearance of her lord and master.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	across	across	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	stalking	stalk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	up	up	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	conj	_	_
10	near	near	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	perturbed	perturb	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Hare |  |  |  |  | across Lioness; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across she=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **stalk** | gerund | Hare *not said here* |  |  | Lioness's den |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent near den=Location |
| 3 | **perturb** | participle | Hare *not said here* |  |  | the disappearance of Lioness's lord and master |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **disappear** |  | Lioness's lord and master |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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