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title: The Gryphon, with the young Man upon his back, flew straight in thro… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gryphon, with the young Man upon his back, flew straight in through the great golden gates, and deposited the youth in the centre of a vast courtyard round which were sitting numbers of gods, fairies and other denizens of the sky. Who acts: Gryphon. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by Willi
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 79

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The Gryphon, with the young Man upon his back, flew straight in through the great golden gates, and deposited the youth in the centre of a vast courtyard round which were sitting numbers of gods, fairies and other denizens of the sky.

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**Who acts:** Gryphon · **What happens:** fly, deposit, sit · **To what, where:** great golden gates, youth, centre, numbers

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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 (Gryphon), 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:pg75000:16:79
# text = The Gryphon, with the young Man upon his back, flew straight in through the great golden gates, and deposited the youth in the centre of a vast courtyard round which were sitting numbers of gods, fairies and other denizens of the sky.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	round	round	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	obl	_	_
34	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	acl	_	_
36	numbers	number	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	denizens	denizen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	conj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | the Gryphon and the young Man upon youth's back |  |  | the great golden gates |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent through gate=Location |
| 2 | **deposit** | past | the Gryphon and the young Man upon youth's back *not said here* | the youth |  | the centre of a vast courtyard |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme in centre=Destination |
| 3 | **sit** | past · progressive |  | numbers of gods and fairies and other denizens of the sky |  |  |  | round a vast courtyard | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location number=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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