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title: Soon after, they arrived at the place where they were to meet the Wo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Soon after, they arrived at the place where they were to meet the Wolf, and sure enough there was the Wolf waiting for them at the appointed spot. Who acts: preparations, Wolf. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Har
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 29

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Soon after, they arrived at the place where they were to meet the Wolf, and sure enough there was the Wolf waiting for them at the appointed spot.

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**Who acts:** preparations, Wolf · **What happens:** arrive, meet, be, wait, appoint · **To what, where:** place, Wolf, appointed spot

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (preparations, Wolf), 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:pg75000:11:29
# text = Soon after, they arrived at the place where they were to meet the Wolf, and sure enough there was the Wolf waiting for them at the appointed spot.
1	Soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
19	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
24	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | preparations *= preparation* |  |  | the place |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | preparations *= preparation* | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **be** | past | the Wolf |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **wait** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  | the appointed spot |  | for preparations *= preparation* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at spot=Location |
| 5 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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