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title: Now it happened one day that these three Thieves met together in a c… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened one day that these three Thieves met together in a country inn, and entering into conversation with one another, began to exchange confidences. Who acts: it, three Thieves. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieve
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 6

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Now it happened one day that these three Thieves met together in a country inn, and entering into conversation with one another, began to exchange confidences.

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**Who acts:** it, three Thieves · **What happens:** happen, meet, enter, begin, exchange · **To what, where:** one day, country inn, conversation, confidences

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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 (it, three Thieves), 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:pg75000:15:6
# text = Now it happened one day that these three Thieves met together in a country inn, and entering into conversation with one another, began to exchange confidences.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	Thieves	thief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	inn	inn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	_
23	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	exchange	exchange	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	confidences	confidence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	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 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now; day |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | past | this three Thieves | one day |  | a country inn |  | together *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund |  |  |  | conversation |  | with one | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into conversation=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **exchange** | to-infinitive |  | confidences |  |  |  |  | vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent confidence=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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