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title: Early next morning Rin-dzin climbed down from the window, and coming… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Early next morning Rin-dzin climbed down from the window, and coming round to the front of the house he asked the lady where her brother was. Who acts: Rin dzin, dzin. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 61

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Early next morning Rin-dzin climbed down from the window, and coming round to the front of the house he asked the lady where her brother was.

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**Who acts:** Rin dzin, dzin · **What happens:** climb down, come round, ask · **To what, where:** window, front, lady

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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 (Rin dzin, dzin), 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:pg75000:19:61
# text = Early next morning Rin-dzin climbed down from the window, and coming round to the front of the house he asked the lady where her brother was.
1	Early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	Rin	Rin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	dzin	dzin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
15	round	round	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **climb down** | past | Rin dzin |  |  | the window | morning | down, early *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from window=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come round** | gerund | Rin dzin *not said here* |  |  | the front of the house |  | round *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to front=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | dzin |  | the lady |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient |

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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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