--- title: The girl wept bitterly on hearing this, but nevertheless she prepare… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: The girl wept bitterly on hearing this, but nevertheless she prepared to carry out her father’s orders, and got ready a large stock of beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels to take with her. Who acts: girl, father. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, S --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/45/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/) / [The Story of the Boy With the Deformed…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/) / 45 # Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 45 The girl wept bitterly on hearing this, but nevertheless she prepared to carry out her father’s orders, and got ready a large stock of beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels to take with her. **Who acts:** girl, father · **What happens:** weep, hear, prepare, carry out, get, take · **To what, where:** this, orders, large stock, beautiful clothes This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl, father), 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:pg75000:16:45 # text = The girl wept bitterly on hearing this, but nevertheless she prepared to carry out her father’s orders, and got ready a large stock of beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels to take with her. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 girl girl NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 wept weep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 bitterly bitterly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 on on SCONJ IN _ 6 mark _ _ 6 hearing hear VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 7 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 but but CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 10 nevertheless nevertheless ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 11 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 prepared prepare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 to to PART TO _ 14 mark _ _ 14 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 12 xcomp _ _ 15 out out ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 got get VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 23 ready ready ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 clothes clothes NOUN NNS Number=Ptan 26 nmod _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 jewels jewel NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 conj _ _ 37 to to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 take take VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weep** | past | the girl | | | | | bitterly *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **hear** | gerund | the girl *not said here* | this | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | | 3 | **prepare** | past | girl | | | | | nevertheless *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 4 | **carry out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | girl *not said here* | girl's father's orders | | | | | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Eventuality | | 5 | **get** | past | the girl *not said here* | a large stock of beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels | | | | ready *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stock=Stimulus | | 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | the girl *not said here* | | | | | with girl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **order** | | girl's father | | | | | | nom order «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **stock** | | | beautiful clothes and much gold and silver and jewels | | | | | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/46/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/)