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title: And so saying he took the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots out of… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And so saying he took the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots out of his wallet and laid them on the steps of the throne. Who acts: gift. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 56

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And so saying he took the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots out of his wallet and laid them on the steps of the throne.

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**Who acts:** gift · **What happens:** say, take, lay, step · **To what, where:** soles, wallet, throne · **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 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 (gift), 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:pg75000:15:56
# text = And so saying he took the soles of the Prime Minister’s boots out of his wallet and laid them on the steps of the throne.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
11	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	boots	boot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	wallet	wallet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	steps	step	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | past | gift | the soles of the Prime Minister's boots |  | gift's wallet |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent sole=Theme out wallet=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lay** | past | gift *not said here* | soles *= sole* |  |  |  | on the steps of the throne | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme on step=Destination |
| 4 | **step** |  |  | the throne |  |  |  |  | nom step «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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