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title: Presently, coming to the crevice into which the rag had been thrust… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Presently, coming to the crevice into which the rag had been thrust by the servant-maid, he moved the pig’s head violently to and fro. Who acts: Boy. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 59

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Presently, coming to the crevice into which the rag had been thrust by the servant-maid, he moved the pig’s head violently to and fro.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** come, be, move, fro · **To what, where:** crevice, thrust, head

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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), 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:pg75000:23:59
# text = Presently, coming to the crevice into which the rag had been thrust by the servant-maid, he moved the pig’s head violently to and fro.
1	Presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	crevice	crevice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rag	rag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	cop	_	_
13	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	pig	pig	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
26	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	fro	fro	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Boy *not said here* |  |  | the crevice |  | presently *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to crevice=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  | thrust |  | by the servant maid; which *nsubj*; the rag *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **move** | past | Boy | the pig's head |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 4 | **fro** | infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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