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title: “Here, oh King!” said the Boy, “are all the finest Peacocks I could… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here, oh King!” said the Boy, “are all the finest Peacocks I could find in the forest. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 66

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“Here, oh King!” said the Boy, “are all the finest Peacocks I could find in the forest.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** say, be, find · **To what, where:** finest Peacocks, forest · **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 (Boy), 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:pg75000:13:66
# text = “Here, oh King!” said the Boy, “are all the finest Peacocks I could find in the forest.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	finest	fine	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	amod	_	_
17	Peacocks	peacock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Boy |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | all finest Peacocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **find** *in a quote* | could | the Boy *= boy* | all finest Peacocks *not said here* |  | the forest |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Topic |

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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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