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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 31

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So the poor Boy slank away sadly, and after wandering about till nightfall he reached another large house further towards the east.

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**Who acts:** poor Boy slank · **What happens:** wonder, reach · **To what, where:** large house

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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 (poor Boy slank), 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:pg75000:23:31
# text = So the poor Boy slank away sadly, and after wandering about till nightfall he reached another large house further towards the east.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	slank	slank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
10	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	wandering	wonder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	further	further	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
21	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	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 | the poor Boy slank *not said here* |  |  |  | till nightfall | about *property* | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **reach** | past | the poor Boy slank | another large house |  |  |  | towards the east; slank *nsubj*; sadly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=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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