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title: By evening he had chopped a fine big bundle of wood, and taking it d… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: By evening he had chopped a fine big bundle of wood, and taking it down into the town he sold it in the market for a good sum of money. Who acts: boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 12

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By evening he had chopped a fine big bundle of wood, and taking it down into the town he sold it in the market for a good sum of money.

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**Who acts:** boy · **What happens:** chop, take down, sell, sum · **To what, where:** fine big bundle, wood, town, market, money

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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:pg75000:18:12
# text = By evening he had chopped a fine big bundle of wood, and taking it down into the town he sold it in the market for a good sum of money.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	chopped	chop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	down	down	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	market	market	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	sum	sum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chop** | past · perfect | boy | a fine big bundle of wood |  |  | evening |  | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient |
| 2 | **take down** | gerund |  | wood |  | the town |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **sell** | past | boy | wood |  | the market |  | for a good sum of money | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for sum=Asset |
| 4 | **sum** |  |  | money |  |  |  |  | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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