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title: Next day the widow and her son set about placing themselves in more… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day the widow and her son set about placing themselves in more comfortable circumstances. Who acts: widow. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 30

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Next day the widow and her son set about placing themselves in more comfortable circumstances.

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**Who acts:** widow · **What happens:** set, place · **To what, where:** widow, more comfortable circumstances

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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 (widow), 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:pg75000:18:30
# text = Next day the widow and her son set about placing themselves in more comfortable circumstances.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	widow	widow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
8	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	about	about	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	placing	place	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **set** | past | the widow and woman's son |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **place** | gerund | the widow and woman's son *not said here* | widow |  | more comfortable circumstances |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in circumstance=Destination |

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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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