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title: She was afraid that if he left her house and began wandering about b… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: She was afraid that if he left her house and began wandering about by himself some accident might happen to him, and she would be left desolate in her old age. Who acts: Mother, Boy, accident. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Tur
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 3

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She was afraid that if he left her house and began wandering about by himself some accident might happen to him, and she would be left desolate in her old age.

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**Who acts:** Mother, Boy, accident · **What happens:** be, leave, begin, wonder, happen, desolate · **To what, where:** house, Boy, Mother, old age · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mother, Boy, accident), 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:pg75000:23:3
# text = She was afraid that if he left her house and began wandering about by himself some accident might happen to him, and she would be left desolate in her old age.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
12	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	accident	accident	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
18	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	happen	happen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
28	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **is** | past | Mother |  |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | Boy | Mother's house |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by Boy; about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **happen** | might | some accident |  | Boy |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leave** | would · passive |  | Mother |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **desolate** | infinitive | Mother *not said here* |  |  |  | in Mother's old age |  | tree rules |

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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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