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title: Wandering on a little further, he came to a big house where a weddin… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Wandering on a little further, he came to a big house where a wedding feast was being celebrated. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 25

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Wandering on a little further, he came to a big house where a wedding feast was being celebrated.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** wonder, come, celebrate · **To what, where:** big house, wedding feast

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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 (Boy), 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:pg75000:23:25
# text = Wandering on a little further, he came to a big house where a wedding feast was being celebrated.
1	Wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
5	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	19	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
18	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on far=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past | Boy |  |  | a big house |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  | a wedding feast |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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