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description: So one fine evening they started off and travelled away across the country, keeping a sharp look-out for some desirable spot in which they might settle down. Who acts: dogs. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 3

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So one fine evening they started off and travelled away across the country, keeping a sharp look-out for some desirable spot in which they might settle down.

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**Who acts:** dogs · **What happens:** start off, travel away, keep, settle down · **To what, where:** country, sharp look out, desirable spot

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dogs), 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:pg75000:14:3
# text = So one fine evening they started off and travelled away across the country, keeping a sharp look-out for some desirable spot in which they might settle down.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	travelled	travel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	away	away	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	across	across	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	out	out	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
23	desirable	desirable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	settle	settle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	acl:relcl	_	_
30	down	down	ADP	RP	_	29	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | dogs *= dog* |  |  |  | evening |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **travel away** | past | dogs *= dog* *not said here* |  |  | the country |  | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across country=Trajectory |
| 3 | **keep** | gerund | dogs *= dog* *not said here* | a sharp look out |  |  |  | for some desirable spot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Theme |
| 4 | **settle down** | might | dogs *= dog* |  |  | some desirable spot |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient |

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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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