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title: The poor woman was at first quite frightened at seeing so much wealt… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The poor woman was at first quite frightened at seeing so much wealth, but her son, having explained to her how he had come by it, she became greatly excited, and pleased. Who acts: wealth, woman. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Ston
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 29

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The poor woman was at first quite frightened at seeing so much wealth, but her son, having explained to her how he had come by it, she became greatly excited, and pleased.

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**Who acts:** wealth, woman · **What happens:** be, see, have, explain, come, become · **To what, where:** poor woman, much wealth, woman

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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 (wealth, woman), 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:pg75000:18:29
# text = The poor woman was at first quite frightened at seeing so much wealth, but her son, having explained to her how he had come by it, she became greatly excited, and pleased.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	obl	_	_
7	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	frightened	frighten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
20	explained	explain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	xcomp	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
32	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	excited	excited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | the poor woman |  |  |  | woman's son *vocative*; frighten *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | much wealth |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wealth=Stimulus |
| 3 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **explain** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  | woman |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | wealth |  |  |  |  | by bucket | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by it=Location |
| 6 | **become** | past | woman |  |  |  |  | excited *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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