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title: One night, as the two were sitting together after dinner, a fox bega… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: One night, as the two were sitting together after dinner, a fox began to bark in the palace grounds outside. Who acts: One night, fox, palace. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 4

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One night, as the two were sitting together after dinner, a fox began to bark in the palace grounds outside.

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**Who acts:** One night, fox, palace · **What happens:** sit, begin, bark, ground

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One night, fox, palace), 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:pg75000:22:4
# text = One night, as the two were sitting together after dinner, a fox began to bark in the palace grounds outside.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	dinner	dinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	bark	bark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	grounds	ground	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
22	outside	outside	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past · progressive | One night as the two |  |  |  | after dinner | together *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | a fox |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bark** | to-infinitive | a fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **ground** | present | the palace |  |  |  |  | outside *property* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «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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