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title: But he still hankered after the jewels, and in a few days’ time he a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: But he still hankered after the jewels, and in a few days’ time he again summoned the Boy before him, and told him that unless he at once furnished four Peacocks to sit one on each of the four golden pinnacles of his palace roof, he should kill his mother and keep the Boy as a slave. Who acts: King.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 48

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But he still hankered after the jewels, and in a few days’ time he again summoned the Boy before him, and told him that unless he at once furnished four Peacocks to sit one on each of the four golden pinnacles of his palace roof, he should kill his mother and keep the Boy as a slave.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hanker, summon, tell, furnish, sit, kill · **To what, where:** Boy, King, four Peacocks, one, each, mother · **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 (King), 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:pg75000:13:48
# text = But he still hankered after the jewels, and in a few days’ time he again summoned the Boy before him, and told him that unless he at once furnished four Peacocks to sit one on each of the four golden pinnacles of his palace roof, he should kill his mother and keep the Boy as a slave.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hankered	hanker	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	after	after	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
28	unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	32	obl	_	_
32	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	advcl	_	_
33	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	34	nummod	_	_
34	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	advcl	_	_
37	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	36	obj	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	36	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
42	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
43	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	amod	_	_
44	pinnacles	pinnacle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	52	aux	_	_
52	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	ccomp	_	_
53	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	54	nmod:poss	_	_
54	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
56	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	as	as	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
60	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hanker** | past | King |  |  |  | after the jewels; still |  | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot after jewel=Theme |
| 2 | **summon** | past | King |  | the Boy |  | before Boy; again; time |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* |  | King |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **furnish** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle | King | four Peacocks |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Recipient |
| 5 | **sit** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | one |  | each of the four golden pinnacles of King's palace roof |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent one=Theme on each=Location |
| 6 | **kill** | should | King | King's mother |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme |
| 7 | **keep** | infinitive | King *not said here* | the Boy |  |  |  | as a slave | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme |

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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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