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title: As quickly as he could, and before the Lion had time to close his mo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As quickly as he could, and before the Lion had time to close his mouth again, the man withdrew his arm, and, finding himself free, he at once hastened down the hill with his wife. Who acts: Lion, man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 63

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As quickly as he could, and before the Lion had time to close his mouth again, the man withdrew his arm, and, finding himself free, he at once hastened down the hill with his wife.

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**Who acts:** Lion, man · **What happens:** have, close, withdraw, find, hasten · **To what, where:** mouth, arm, Lion, hill

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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 (Lion, man), 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:pg75000:18:63
# text = As quickly as he could, and before the Lion had time to close his mouth again, the man withdrew his arm, and, finding himself free, he at once hastened down the hill with his wife.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
8	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	close	close	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obj	_	_
29	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
35	down	down	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the Lion |  |  |  | time |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **close** | to-infinitive | the Lion *not said here* | Lion's mouth |  |  | again |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | the man | Lion's arm |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | gerund | the man *not said here* | Lion |  |  |  | free *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 5 | **hasten** | could | Lion |  |  | the hill with Lion's wife |  | once, quickly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory |

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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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