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title: He had done a good morning’s work, and was walking a little further… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He had done a good morning’s work, and was walking a little further up the hill in order to search for some better timber, when, in a sheltered part of the hillside he suddenly found himself face to face with a large life-sized Lion carved out of the stone. Who acts: boy, large sized Lion, good morn
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 15

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He had done a good morning’s work, and was walking a little further up the hill in order to search for some better timber, when, in a sheltered part of the hillside he suddenly found himself face to face with a large life-sized Lion carved out of the stone.

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**Who acts:** boy, large sized Lion, good morning · **What happens:** do, walk, search, shelter, find, size · **To what, where:** work, order, boy, stone

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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, large sized Lion, good morning), 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:pg75000:18:15
# text = He had done a good morning’s work, and was walking a little further up the hill in order to search for some better timber, when, in a sheltered part of the hillside he suddenly found himself face to face with a large life-sized Lion carved out of the stone.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	obl	_	_
15	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	search	search	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
26	timber	timber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sheltered	shelter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hillside	hillside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	39	obj	_	_
41	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
46	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
47	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	47	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	sized	size	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	amod	_	_
50	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
51	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	advcl	_	_
52	out	out	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past · perfect | boy | a good morning's work |  |  |  | a sheltered part of the hillside *parataxis* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality |
| 2 | **walk** | past · progressive | boy *not said here* |  |  | order |  | far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Trajectory |
| 3 | **search** | to-infinitive | boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for some better timber | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for timber=Theme |
| 4 | **shelter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | past | boy | boy |  |  |  | face *obj*; suddenly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute |
| 6 | **size** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | life *compound* | tree rules |
| 7 | **carve out** | past | a large sized Lion | the stone |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 8 | **work** |  | a good morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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