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title: After lying on the mounting-block for some time it chanced that one… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After lying on the mounting-block for some time it chanced that one of the grooms of the palace passed by, and, seeing the shell, he paused to look at it, and remarked to himself: Who acts: block, palace. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 88

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After lying on the mounting-block for some time it chanced that one of the grooms of the palace passed by, and, seeing the shell, he paused to look at it, and remarked to himself:

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**Who acts:** block, palace · **What happens:** lie, chance, pass by, see, pause, look · **To what, where:** mounting block, one, palace, shell

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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 (block, 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:pg75000:22:88
# text = After lying on the mounting-block for some time it chanced that one of the grooms of the palace passed by, and, seeing the shell, he paused to look at it, and remarked to himself:
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	mounting	mounting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	block	block	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	grooms	groom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	remarked	remark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | gerund | block *not said here* |  |  | the mounting block | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on block=Location |
| 2 | **chance** | past | block | one of the grooms of the palace |  |  |  |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Pivot |
| 3 | **pass by** | participle |  | the palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | gerund | palace *not said here* | the shell |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus |
| 5 | **pause** | past | palace |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **look** | to-infinitive | palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at block | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 7 | **remark** *speech: assert* | participle | block *not said here* |  | palace |  |  |  | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to himself=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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