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title: This was at once accorded to him, and finding the King looking very… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This was at once accorded to him, and finding the King looking very depressed, he addressed him as follows: Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 24

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This was at once accorded to him, and finding the King looking very depressed, he addressed him as follows:

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** accord, find, look, address, follow · **To what, where:** This, King, friend

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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 (King), 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:pg75000:20:24
# text = This was at once accorded to him, and finding the King looking very depressed, he addressed him as follows:
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
5	accorded	accord	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	depressed	depressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **accord** | past · passive |  | This | King |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to he=Goal |
| 2 | **find** | gerund |  | the King |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
| 3 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | depressed *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **address** | past | King |  | friend |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 5 | **follow** | present | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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