--- title: Next day, at the appointed hour, the Boy went down to the lake as us… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: Next day, at the appointed hour, the Boy went down to the lake as usual, and seated himself in his usual place; and not long afterwards he saw the white Drake and a white Duck flying towards him from the sky. Who acts: Boy, white Drake. 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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 (Boy, white Drake), 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:pg75000:16:46 # text = Next day, at the appointed hour, the Boy went down to the lake as usual, and seated himself in his usual place; and not long afterwards he saw the white Drake and a white Duck flying towards him from the sky. 1 Next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 at at ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 appointed appoint VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 amod _ _ 7 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 Boy Boy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 down down ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 13 to to ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 16 as as ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 seated seat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 usual usual ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 32 advmod _ _ 30 afterwards afterwards ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Drake Drake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 Duck Duck PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 40 flying fly VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 32 xcomp _ _ 41 towards towards ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 obl _ _ 43 from from ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 sky sky NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **appoint** | participle | | | | | | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go down** | past | the Boy | | | | day | to the lake as usual; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **seat** | past | the Boy *not said here* | Boy | | Boy's usual place | | | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in place=Location | | 4 | **see** | past | Boy | the white Drake and a white Duck | | | | afterwards, long *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fly** | gerund | the white Drake and a white Duck *not said here* | | | the sky | | towards Boy | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards he=Destination from sky=Initial\_Location | 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 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/45/) - next →: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/47/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/)