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title: As they approached the palace great consternation arose; servants ra… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As they approached the palace great consternation arose; servants ran hither and thither, and the guards were called to arms. Who acts: directions, great consternation, servants. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children., with its d
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 42

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As they approached the palace great consternation arose; servants ran hither and thither, and the guards were called to arms.

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**Who acts:** directions, great consternation, servants · **What happens:** approach, arise, run, call · **To what, where:** palace, guards, arms · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (directions, great consternation, servants), 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:pg75000:13:42
# text = As they approached the palace great consternation arose; servants ran hither and thither, and the guards were called to arms.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	consternation	consternation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | directions *= direction* | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 2 | **arise** | past | great consternation | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location palace=Theme |
| 3 | **run** | past | servants |  |  | thither |  | hither *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | the guards | arms |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to arm=Recipient |

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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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