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title: At last, after having explored the greater part of the building, he… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: At last, after having explored the greater part of the building, he suddenly turned a corner in a passage, and saw in front of him a room whose walls were composed entirely of glass. Who acts: Scarcely. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 38

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At last, after having explored the greater part of the building, he suddenly turned a corner in a passage, and saw in front of him a room whose walls were composed entirely of glass.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely · **What happens:** explore, turn, see, compose · **To what, where:** greater part, last, corner, front, room · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Scarcely), 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:pg75000:17:38
# text = At last, after having explored the greater part of the building, he suddenly turned a corner in a passage, and saw in front of him a room whose walls were composed entirely of glass.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	explored	explore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	building	building	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	passage	passage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	ccomp	_	_
35	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **explore** | gerund · perfect |  | the greater part of the building |  | last |  |  | vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent part=Location |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Scarcely | a corner |  |  |  | in a passage; suddenly *property* | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Patient in passage=Topic |
| 3 | **see** | past | Scarcely *not said here* |  |  | front of Scarcely |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **compose** | past · passive |  | a room |  |  |  | of glass; walls *nsubj:pass*; entirely *property* | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |

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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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