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title: Shortly after, one of the maid-servants came out of the house, and s… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after, one of the maid-servants came out of the house, and seeing a piece of rag lying in the middle of the yard, she picked it up, and the turquoise with it, and thrust them both into a crevice in the wall. Who acts: Lady, rag. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Trav
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 39

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Shortly after, one of the maid-servants came out of the house, and seeing a piece of rag lying in the middle of the yard, she picked it up, and the turquoise with it, and thrust them both into a crevice in the wall.

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**Who acts:** Lady, rag · **What happens:** come out, see, lie, pick up, thrust · **To what, where:** house, piece, middle, yard, crevice

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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 (Lady, rag), 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:pg75000:23:39
# text = Shortly after, one of the maid-servants came out of the house, and seeing a piece of rag lying in the middle of the yard, she picked it up, and the turquoise with it, and thrust them both into a crevice in the wall.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
10	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
17	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	middle	middle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
30	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	picked	pick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	RP	_	31	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	thrust	thrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	conj	_	_
43	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obj	_	_
44	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	42	obj	_	_
45	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	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 | **come out** | past |  | the house |  |  | after one | of the maid servants | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result |
| 2 | **see** | gerund | Lady *not said here* | a piece of rag |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund | rag *not said here* |  |  | the middle of the yard |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
| 4 | **pick up** | past | Lady | piece |  |  |  | the turquoise with house *obl* | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 5 | **thrust** | infinitive | Lady *not said here* | yard |  | a crevice in the wall |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination both=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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