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title: After the reception he had received from the wedding party he was af… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After the reception he had received from the wedding party he was afraid to go in or to knock at the door, so creeping into the backyard he dug himself a nest in the manure heap, and crouched down in this for warmth, all hidden except his head. Who acts: slank. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 32

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After the reception he had received from the wedding party he was afraid to go in or to knock at the door, so creeping into the backyard he dug himself a nest in the manure heap, and crouched down in this for warmth, all hidden except his head.

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**Who acts:** slank · **What happens:** receive, be, go in, knock, creep, dig · **To what, where:** wedding party, backyard, slank, manure heap, this

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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 (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:pg75000:23:32
# text = After the reception he had received from the wedding party he was afraid to go in or to knock at the door, so creeping into the backyard he dug himself a nest in the manure heap, and crouched down in this for warmth, all hidden except his head.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	wedding	wedding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	knock	knock	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	so	so	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	creeping	creep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	backyard	backyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dug	dig	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	30	obj	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	manure	manure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	heap	heap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	crouched	crouch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
41	down	down	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	40	obl	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	warmth	warmth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	hidden	hidden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
49	except	except	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **receive** | past · perfect | slank |  |  | the wedding party | after the reception |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from party=Source |
| 2 | **is** | past | slank | the wedding party *not said here* |  |  |  | afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go in** | to-infinitive | slank *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **knock** | to-infinitive | slank *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient |
| 5 | **creep** | gerund | slank *not said here* |  |  | the backyard |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into backyard=Destination |
| 6 | **dig** | past | slank | slank |  | the manure heap |  | a nest *obj* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary nest=Result |
| 7 | **crouch down** | participle | slank *not said here* |  |  | this |  | for warmth | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in this=Location |

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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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