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title: A few minutes later the great doors leading to the audience chamber… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: A few minutes later the great doors leading to the audience chamber were thrown open, and a herald appearing upon the threshold proclaimed “Silence.” Who acts: great doors, herald. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., with
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 47

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A few minutes later the great doors leading to the audience chamber were thrown open, and a herald appearing upon the threshold proclaimed “Silence.”

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**Who acts:** great doors, herald · **What happens:** lead, throw, appear, proclaim · **To what, where:** great doors, threshold, Silence

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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 (great doors, herald), 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:pg75000:15:47
# text = A few minutes later the great doors leading to the audience chamber were thrown open, and a herald appearing upon the threshold proclaimed “Silence.”
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
20	appearing	appear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | gerund | the great doors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the audience chamber | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to chamber=Patient |
| 2 | **throw** | past · passive |  | the great doors |  |  |  | late, open *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **appear** | gerund | a herald *not said here* |  |  | the threshold |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon threshold=Location |
| 4 | **proclaim** | past | a herald | Silence |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silence=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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