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title: Having got rid of these two persons, the Boy now began to walk round… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Having got rid of these two persons, the Boy now began to walk round the yard, the pig’s snout apparently sniffing carefully at every part of the wall in the farm buildings. Who acts: Boy, snout. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 58

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Having got rid of these two persons, the Boy now began to walk round the yard, the pig’s snout apparently sniffing carefully at every part of the wall in the farm buildings.

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**Who acts:** Boy, snout · **What happens:** have, get, begin, walk, sniff · **To what, where:** part

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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, snout), 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:pg75000:23:58
# text = Having got rid of these two persons, the Boy now began to walk round the yard, the pig’s snout apparently sniffing carefully at every part of the wall in the farm buildings.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	nsubj	_	_
2	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	rid	rid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	round	round	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	snout	snout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	parataxis	_	_
25	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	farm	farm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	buildings	building	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get** | past |  |  |  |  |  | rid *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the Boy |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **walk** | to-infinitive | the Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | round the yard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round yard=Trajectory |
| 5 | **sniff** | gerund | the pig's snout |  |  | every part of the wall |  | in the farm buildings; apparently, carefully *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in building=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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