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title: So she and her husband mounted together upon the broad back of the G… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So she and her husband mounted together upon the broad back of the Gryphon, and the great beast, spreading his wings, sailed through the golden gates of the palace and swept downwards through the blue heavens to the earth below. Who acts: great beast. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 94

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So she and her husband mounted together upon the broad back of the Gryphon, and the great beast, spreading his wings, sailed through the golden gates of the palace and swept downwards through the blue heavens to the earth below.

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**Who acts:** great beast · **What happens:** mount, spread, sail, sweep · **To what, where:** girl, broad back, wings, golden gates, blue heavens

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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 (great beast), 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:pg75000:16:94
# text = So she and her husband mounted together upon the broad back of the Gryphon, and the great beast, spreading his wings, sailed through the golden gates of the palace and swept downwards through the blue heavens to the earth below.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Gryphon	Gryphon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	spreading	spread	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
26	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	downwards	downwards	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	through	through	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
43	below	below	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | participle · passive |  | girl |  | the broad back of the Gryphon |  | the great beast *parataxis*; together *property* | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme upon back=Destination |
| 2 | **spread** | gerund | the great beast *not said here* | husband's wings |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
| 3 | **sail** | past |  |  |  | the golden gates of the palace |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through gate=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sweep** | past |  |  |  | the blue heavens |  | to the earth; downwards *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to earth=Destination |

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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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