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title: After walking some little way, he came upon a new boot lying in the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After walking some little way, he came upon a new boot lying in the centre of the road. Who acts: thief, new boot. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 71

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After walking some little way, he came upon a new boot lying in the centre of the road.

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**Who acts:** thief, new boot · **What happens:** walk, come, lie · **To what, where:** little way, new boot, centre

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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 (thief, new boot), 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:pg75000:19:71
# text = After walking some little way, he came upon a new boot lying in the centre of the road.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	walking	walk	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	boot	boot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	acl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | gerund | thief *not said here* | some little way |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come** | past | thief |  |  | a new boot |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon boot=Location |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | a new boot *not said here* |  |  | the centre of the road |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |

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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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