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title: Generally the Mice were very prosperous and had plenty to eat, but i… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Generally the Mice were very prosperous and had plenty to eat, but it happened one year that the crops of the country were very poor, and the Mice, who subsisted chiefly on the spare grains left after the harvest, found that their stores were running short before the end of the winter. Who acts: Mic
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 2

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Generally the Mice were very prosperous and had plenty to eat, but it happened one year that the crops of the country were very poor, and the Mice, who subsisted chiefly on the spare grains left after the harvest, found that their stores were running short before the end of the winter.

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**Who acts:** Mice, it, crops, stores · **What happens:** be, have, eat, happen, subsist, leave · **To what, where:** plenty, spare grains, end

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice, it, crops, stores), 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:pg75000:20:2
# text = Generally the Mice were very prosperous and had plenty to eat, but it happened one year that the crops of the country were very poor, and the Mice, who subsisted chiefly on the spare grains left after the harvest, found that their stores were running short before the end of the winter.
1	Generally	generally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
9	plenty	plenty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	crops	crop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	very	very	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	subsisted	subsist	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	chiefly	chiefly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	spare	spare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	grains	grain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
39	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
40	after	after	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
44	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
45	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	stores	store	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	aux	_	_
49	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	44	advcl	_	_
50	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	xcomp	_	_
51	before	before	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Mice |  |  |  |  | generally, prosperous *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Mice *not said here* | plenty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Mice *not said here* | plenty *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | year |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the crops of the country |  |  |  |  | poor *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **subsist** | past | the Mice |  |  |  |  | on the spare grains; chiefly *property* | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grain=Patient |
| 7 | **leave** | participle |  | the spare grains *not said here* |  |  | after the harvest |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **find** | past | the Mice |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **run** | past · progressive | Mice's stores |  |  |  | before the end of the winter | short *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before end=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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