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title: As they came nearer to the den, the Tiger grew more and more timorou… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As they came nearer to the den, the Tiger grew more and more timorous, and would only advance very slowly, ready to take flight at any moment. Who acts: people, Tiger. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 31

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As they came nearer to the den, the Tiger grew more and more timorous, and would only advance very slowly, ready to take flight at any moment.

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**Who acts:** people, Tiger · **What happens:** come, grow, advance, take · **To what, where:** flight

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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 (people, Tiger), 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:pg75000:14:31
# text = As they came nearer to the den, the Tiger grew more and more timorous, and would only advance very slowly, ready to take flight at any moment.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	xcomp	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	timorous	timorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	advance	advance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
21	very	very	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	30	det	_	_
30	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | people |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **grow** | past | the Tiger |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **advance** | would | the Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **take** | to-infinitive | the Tiger *not said here* | flight |  |  | moment |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=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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