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title: So they jumped in through a narrow window and began to enjoy themsel… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So they jumped in through a narrow window and began to enjoy themselves thoroughly, eating and drinking anything which took their fancy. Who acts: three. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., with its dep
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 67

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So they jumped in through a narrow window and began to enjoy themselves thoroughly, eating and drinking anything which took their fancy.

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**Who acts:** three · **What happens:** jump in, begin, enjoy, eat, drink, take · **To what, where:** narrow window, three, anything, fancy

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (three), 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:pg75000:12:67
# text = So they jumped in through a narrow window and began to enjoy themselves thoroughly, eating and drinking anything which took their fancy.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	jumped	jump	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	narrow	narrow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	thoroughly	thoroughly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
19	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	18	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fancy	fancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **jump in** | past | three |  |  | a narrow window |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through window=Trajectory |
| 2 | **begin** | past | three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **enjoy** | to-infinitive | three *not said here* | three |  |  |  | thoroughly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **drink** | gerund | three *not said here* | anything |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient |
| 6 | **take** | past |  | three's fancy |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fancy=Theme |
| 7 | **fancy** |  | three |  |  |  |  |  | nom fancy «cognition transitive»: poss=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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