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title: When the Mouse entered the King’s presence he walked slowly up the H… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Mouse entered the King’s presence he walked slowly up the Hall of Audience, carrying in his hand a little silk thread, which he presented to the King, instead of the usual ceremonial scarf. Who acts: Mouse, King, little silk thread. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 8

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When the Mouse entered the King’s presence he walked slowly up the Hall of Audience, carrying in his hand a little silk thread, which he presented to the King, instead of the usual ceremonial scarf.

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**Who acts:** Mouse, King, little silk thread · **What happens:** enter, walk, carry, present · **To what, where:** presence, Hall, little silk thread, hand, King

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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 (Mouse, King, little silk thread), 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:pg75000:20:8
# text = When the Mouse entered the King’s presence he walked slowly up the Hall of Audience, carrying in his hand a little silk thread, which he presented to the King, instead of the usual ceremonial scarf.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hall	Hall	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Audience	Audience	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	carrying	carry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	silk	silk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	presented	present	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	39	case	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	fixed	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
37	usual	usual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	ceremonial	ceremonial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	scarf	scarf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the Mouse | the King's presence |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme presence=Destination |
| 2 | **walk** | past | King |  |  | the Hall of Audience |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up hall=Trajectory |
| 3 | **carry** | gerund | King *not said here* | a little silk thread |  | King's hand |  | instead the usual ceremonial scarf | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent thread=Value in hand=Location |
| 4 | **present** | past | a little silk thread |  | the King |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=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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