--- title: To the Barber’s astonishment, each hair, as it fell to the ground, i… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: To the Barber’s astonishment, each hair, as it fell to the ground, immediately turned into diamonds, pearls, and other jewels; and when he proceeded to pare the Boy’s nails, each paring, as it touched the ground, became a beautiful turquoise. Who acts: hair, barber. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hair, barber), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:13:21 # text = To the Barber’s astonishment, each hair, as it fell to the ground, immediately turned into diamonds, pearls, and other jewels; and when he proceeded to pare the Boy’s nails, each paring, as it touched the ground, became a beautiful turquoise. 1 To to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Barber barber NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 3 case _ _ 5 astonishment astonishment NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 8 det _ _ 8 hair hair NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 as as SCONJ IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 immediately immediately ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 turned turn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ _ 19 into into ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 diamonds diamond NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 pearls pearl NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 25 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 proceeded proceed VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 pare pare VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 nails nail NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 40 det _ _ 40 paring paring NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 42 as as SCONJ IN _ 44 mark _ _ 43 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 48 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 conj _ _ 49 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 50 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 51 turquoise turquoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fall** | past | hair | | | the Barber's astonishment and each hair | | to the ground | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to astonishment=Initial\_Location to ground=Destination | | 2 | **turn** | participle | | other jewels | | diamonds and pearls | | immediately *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into diamond=Trajectory | | 3 | **proceed** | past | barber | | | | | | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **pare** | to-infinitive | barber *not said here* | the Boy's nails and each paring | | | | | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | | 5 | **touch** | past | hair | the ground | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | | 6 | **become** | past | hair *not said here* | a beautiful turquoise | | | | | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **astonish** | | the Barber | | | | | | nom astonishment «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/22/) - ↑ back to [The Mouse’s Three Children.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/13/)