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title: When the groom heard this he ran straight into the palace and inform… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When the groom heard this he ran straight into the palace and informed the Prime Minister all that the shell had said. Who acts: groom, Baki, shell. 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 p
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 95

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When the groom heard this he ran straight into the palace and informed the Prime Minister all that the shell had said.

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**Who acts:** groom, Baki, shell · **What happens:** hear, run, inform, say · **To what, where:** this, palace, Prime Minister · **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 (groom, Baki, shell), 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:pg75000:22:95
# text = When the groom heard this he ran straight into the palace and informed the Prime Minister all that the shell had said.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Prime	Prime	PROPN	NNP	_	16	compound	_	_
16	Minister	Minister	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shell	shell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | the groom | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **run** | past | Baki | the palace |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme palace=Trajectory |
| 3 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | Baki *not said here* | the Prime Minister |  |  |  |  | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent minister=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past · perfect | the shell |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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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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