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title: Now it happened that on that day the three sons of the King of that… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that on that day the three sons of the King of that country were out hunting together, and as they rode along looking out for game they suddenly came upon the Queen and her son. Who acts: it, three sons, child. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 40

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Now it happened that on that day the three sons of the King of that country were out hunting together, and as they rode along looking out for game they suddenly came upon the Queen and her son.

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**Who acts:** it, three sons, child · **What happens:** happen, hunt, ride along, look out, come · **To what, where:** game

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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 (it, three sons, child), 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:pg75000:22:40
# text = Now it happened that on that day the three sons of the King of that country were out hunting together, and as they rode along looking out for game they suddenly came upon the Queen and her son.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
20	together	together	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	along	along	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	xcomp	_	_
28	out	out	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hunt** | past · progressive | the three sons of the King of that country |  |  |  | day | together *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **ride along** | past | child |  |  |  |  | along *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **look out** | gerund | child *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for game | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for game=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | child | game *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the Queen and Queen's son; suddenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location game=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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