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title: So saying she went over to the central glass pillar and, unscrewing… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying she went over to the central glass pillar and, unscrewing a portion of it, she showed him a cavity inside, within which he concealed himself. Who acts: skin, Prince. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with it
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 56

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So saying she went over to the central glass pillar and, unscrewing a portion of it, she showed him a cavity inside, within which he concealed himself.

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**Who acts:** skin, Prince · **What happens:** say, go over, unscrew, show, conceal · **To what, where:** portion, cavity, Prince · **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 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 (skin, Prince), 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:pg75000:22:56
# text = So saying she went over to the central glass pillar and, unscrewing a portion of it, she showed him a cavity inside, within which he concealed himself.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	over	over	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	central	central	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	pillar	pillar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	unscrewing	unscrew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	showed	show	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	cavity	cavity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | skin *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **go over** | past | skin |  |  |  |  | to the central glass pillar; over *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **unscrew** | gerund | skin *not said here* | a portion of portion |  |  |  |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Patient |
| 4 | **show** | past | skin | a cavity | Prince |  |  | inside *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient cavity=Topic |
| 5 | **conceal** | past | Prince | Prince |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |

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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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