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title: So he called Mrs. Jackal and the children, and told them to go insid… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So he called Mrs. Jackal and the children, and told them to go inside and to have a good feed, and to make themselves quite comfortable. Who acts: Tiger. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 7

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So he called Mrs. Jackal and the children, and told them to go inside and to have a good feed, and to make themselves quite comfortable.

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**Who acts:** Tiger · **What happens:** call, tell, go, have, make · **To what, where:** Mrs., good feed · **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 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 (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:pg75000:14:7
# text = So he called Mrs. Jackal and the children, and told them to go inside and to have a good feed, and to make themselves quite comfortable.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Mrs.	Mrs.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	Jackal	Jackal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	iobj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	feed	feed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
26	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | Tiger |  | Mrs. and the children |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mrs.=Recipient |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Tiger *not said here* |  | Mrs. |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive | Tiger *not said here* | a good feed |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feed=Patient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | Tiger *not said here* | Mrs. |  |  |  | comfortable *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |

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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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