--- title: And so he passed his life very happily until, when he reached the ag… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: And so he passed his life very happily until, when he reached the age of fifteen, he began to think he should like to marry a wife as other young men did, but he feared that owing to his deformity no girl would ever look at him. Who acts: child, other young men, girl. 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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 (child, other young men, girl), 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:pg75000:16:4 # text = And so he passed his life very happily until, when he reached the age of fifteen, he began to think he should like to marry a wife as other young men did, but he feared that owing to his deformity no girl would ever look at him. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 so so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 very very ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 happily happily ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 9 until until SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 when when SCONJ WRB _ 13 mark _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 fifteen fifteen NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 24 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 like like VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 marry marry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 as as SCONJ IN _ 34 mark _ _ 31 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 32 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 but but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 37 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 38 feared fear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 39 that that SCONJ IN _ 40 mark _ _ 40 owing owe VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 advcl _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 deformity deformity NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 48 aux _ _ 47 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 48 advmod _ _ 48 look look VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 49 at at ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | child | child's life | | | | happily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Trajectory | | 2 | **reach** | past | child | the age of fifteen | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent age=Theme | | 3 | **begin** | past | child | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 4 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 5 | **like** | should | child | | | | | | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 6 | **marry** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | child *not said here* | a wife | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient | | 7 | **do** | past | other young men | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **fear** | past | child | | | | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 9 | **owe** | gerund | child *not said here* | | | | | to child's deformity *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to deformity=Goal | | 10 | **look** | would | no girl | | | | ever | at child | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme | 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 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/5/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/)