--- title: I mingled with the servants, who were standing about, without attrac… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: I mingled with the servants, who were standing about, without attracting any attention, and remained in the room until the Emperor himself entered and seated himself with great ceremony to partake of his mid-day meal. Who acts: I, Emperor. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Emperor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:15:36 # text = I mingled with the servants, who were standing about, without attracting any attention, and remained in the room until the Emperor himself entered and seated himself with great ceremony to partake of his mid-day meal. 1 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 mingled mingle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 servants servant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 8 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 without without SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 13 attracting attract VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 14 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 15 attention attention NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 remained remain VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 parataxis _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 22 until until SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 Emperor Emperor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 25 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 24 nmod _ _ 26 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ _ 29 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 28 obj _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 ceremony ceremony NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 to to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 partake partake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 acl _ _ 35 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 37 mid-day mid-day NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mingle** | past | I | | | | | with the servants | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent with servant=Co-Patient | | 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | | | | | | who *nsubj*; about *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **attract** | gerund | | any attention | | | | | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Patient | | 4 | **remain** | participle | | | | the room | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in room=Location | | 5 | **enter** | past | the Emperor Emperor | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **seat** | past | the Emperor Emperor *not said here* | Emperor | | | | with great ceremony | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | | 7 | **partake** | to-infinitive | the Emperor Emperor *not said here* | | | | | of Emperor's mid-day meal | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/15/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/15/37/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Three Thieves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/15/)