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title: As he passed to and fro in the crowd, I succeeded in cutting the sol… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As he passed to and fro in the crowd, I succeeded in cutting the soles off his new boots without his having any idea of what had happened. Who acts: line, I. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., with its dependency tree an
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 26

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As he passed to and fro in the crowd, I succeeded in cutting the soles off his new boots without his having any idea of what had happened.

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**Who acts:** line, I · **What happens:** pass, fro, succeed, cut, have, happen · **To what, where:** crowd, soles, idea

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (line, I), 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:pg75000:15:26
# text = As he passed to and fro in the crowd, I succeeded in cutting the soles off his new boots without his having any idea of what had happened.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
21	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Gender=Masc|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
24	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nmod	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | line |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fro** | infinitive | line *not said here* |  |  | the crowd |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **succeed** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cut** | gerund | I *not said here* | the soles |  |  |  | off line's new boots | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sole=Patient off boot=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | line | any idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 6 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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