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title: And on hearing this the Thief at once retired, followed by the young… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And on hearing this the Thief at once retired, followed by the young girl, who was now completely convinced of his identity. Who acts: young girl. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 56

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And on hearing this the Thief at once retired, followed by the young girl, who was now completely convinced of his identity.

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**Who acts:** young girl · **What happens:** hear, follow, be · **To what, where:** this, retired

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young girl), 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:pg75000:19:56
# text = And on hearing this the Thief at once retired, followed by the young girl, who was now completely convinced of his identity.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	retired	retired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
19	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	completely	completely	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	identity	identity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | this |  | retired |  | the Thief *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | the young girl *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the young girl |  |  |  | now | of thief's identity; completely, convinced *property* | tree rules |

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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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