---
title: After sitting waiting for some time the fox all of a sudden darted o… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After sitting waiting for some time the fox all of a sudden darted out of its earth, and ran off towards the hills, with the Boy’s hat sticking over its head. Who acts: hat. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its d
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/23/12/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/) / [How He Found the Lost Turquoise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/23/) / 12

# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 12

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After sitting waiting for some time the fox all of a sudden darted out of its earth, and ran off towards the hills, with the Boy’s hat sticking over its head.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** hat · **What happens:** sit, wait, dart, run off, stick · **To what, where:** all, fox, earth, hills, head

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:23:12
# text = After sitting waiting for some time the fox all of a sudden darted out of its earth, and ran off towards the hills, with the Boy’s hat sticking over its head.
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	xcomp	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	darted	dart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	nmod	_	_
14	out	out	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
21	off	off	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	hat	hat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
31	sticking	stick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	acl	_	_
32	over	over	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund |  | all |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund |  | the fox |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **dart** | participle |  |  |  | fox's earth |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out earth=Trajectory |
| 4 | **run off** | past |  |  |  | the hills |  | with the Boy's hat | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hill=Destination |
| 5 | **stick** | gerund | the Boy's hat *not said here* |  |  | fox's head |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme over head=Destination |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/23/11/)
- next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/23/13/)
- ↑ back to [How He Found the Lost Turquoise.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/23/)