--- title: So the two took up their abode in this fine house and, together with… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: So the two took up their abode in this fine house and, together with the old father and mother, they lived there happily for several years; and as time passed away the fairy wife became accustomed to her husband’s forbidding appearance, and year by year became more and more attached to him. 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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 (two, servants, fairy wife, year), 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:pg75000:16:52 # text = So the two took up their abode in this fine house and, together with the old father and mother, they lived there happily for several years; and as time passed away the fairy wife became accustomed to her husband’s forbidding appearance, and year by year became more and more attached to him. 1 So so ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nsubj _ _ 4 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 up up ADP RP _ 4 compound:prt _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 abode abode NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 11 det _ _ 10 fine fine ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 together together ADV RB _ 4 conj _ _ 15 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 24 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 23 advmod _ _ 25 happily happily ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 26 for for ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 as as ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ _ 33 passed pass VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ _ 34 away away ADP RP _ 33 compound:prt _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 36 fairy fairy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 39 accustomed accustom VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 xcomp _ _ 40 to to SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ _ 44 forbidding forbid VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 43 xcomp _ _ 45 appearance appearance NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 47 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 48 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 49 by by ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nmod _ _ 51 became become VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 52 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 51 advmod _ _ 53 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 54 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 55 advmod _ _ 55 attached attached ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 xcomp _ _ 56 to to ADP IN _ 57 case _ _ 57 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take up** | past | the two | servants's abode | | this fine house | | with the old father and mother | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent abode=Value in house=Location | | 2 | **live** | past | servants *= servant* | | | there | year | happily *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **pass away** | participle | the two *not said here* | | | | time | | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **become** | past | the fairy wife | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **accustom** | participle | the fairy wife *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **forbid** | gerund | the fairy wife *not said here* | appearance | | | | | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer appearance=Theme | | 7 | **become** | past | year by year | | | | | attached *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/51/) - next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/53/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/)