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title: When you arrive there you will find a goat tied up near the door of… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When you arrive there you will find a goat tied up near the door of the courtyard, and a bundle of straw lying near by. Who acts: you, straw. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 24

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When you arrive there you will find a goat tied up near the door of the courtyard, and a bundle of straw lying near by.

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**Who acts:** you, straw · **What happens:** arrive, find, tie up, lie · **To what, where:** goat, door

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, straw), 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:pg75000:17:24
# text = When you arrive there you will find a goat tied up near the door of the courtyard, and a bundle of straw lying near by.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
4	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
5	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	goat	goat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	tied	tie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	straw	straw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	near	near	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | you |  |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | future | you | a goat |  |  |  | a bundle of straw *conj* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Topic |
| 3 | **tie up** | participle |  | a goat *not said here* |  | the door of the courtyard |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lie** | gerund | straw *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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