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title: The Peacock soon grew into a large and beautiful bird, and when he h… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Peacock soon grew into a large and beautiful bird, and when he had reached his full growth he one day said to his mother: Who acts: Peacock. 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 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 9

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The Peacock soon grew into a large and beautiful bird, and when he had reached his full growth he one day said to his mother:

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**Who acts:** Peacock · **What happens:** grow, reach, say · **To what, where:** full growth, 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 (Peacock), 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:pg75000:13:9
# text = The Peacock soon grew into a large and beautiful bird, and when he had reached his full growth he one day said to his mother:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Peacock	peacock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	16	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	growth	growth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the Peacock |  |  |  |  | into a large bird *result*; soon *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into bird=Result |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect | Peacock | Peacock's full growth |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent growth=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Peacock | Peacock's full growth *not said here* | Peacock's mother |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent growth=Topic to mother=Recipient |
| 4 | **grow** |  | Peacock |  |  |  |  |  | nom growth «process intransitive»: 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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