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title: Entering this room he saw in one corner a beautiful lady lying aslee… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Entering this room he saw in one corner a beautiful lady lying asleep on a couch with a flower behind her ear. Who acts: Scarcely, beautiful lady. 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 pra
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 39

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Entering this room he saw in one corner a beautiful lady lying asleep on a couch with a flower behind her ear.

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**Who acts:** Scarcely, beautiful lady · **What happens:** enter, see, lie · **To what, where:** room, one corner, couch

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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, beautiful lady), 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:pg75000:17:39
# text = Entering this room he saw in one corner a beautiful lady lying asleep on a couch with a flower behind her ear.
1	Entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund |  | this room |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
| 2 | **see** | past | Scarcely | this room *not said here* |  | one corner and a beautiful lady |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer room=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | a beautiful lady *not said here* |  |  | a couch |  | with a flower; behind goat's ear; asleep *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location |

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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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