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title: “Good-morning, Father,” said he, “Mother has sent me to find out whe… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good-morning, Father,” said he, “Mother has sent me to find out where you are and how you are getting on.” Who acts: father, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 11

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“Good-morning, Father,” said he, “Mother has sent me to find out where you are and how you are getting on.”

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**Who acts:** father, you · **What happens:** say, send, find out, be, get on · **To what, where:** Mother · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, you), 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:pg75000:21:11
# text = “Good-morning, Father,” said he, “Mother has sent me to find out where you are and how you are getting on.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Father	Father	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	out	out	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | father |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **send** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | Mother |  |  |  | me *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination i=Theme |
| 3 | **find out** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** *in a quote* | present | you |  |  |  |  | where *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **get on** *in a quote* | present · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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