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title: The dog, on seeing the fox, started to chase it; while the young Man… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The dog, on seeing the fox, started to chase it; while the young Man, thinking he was to have some fun at last, galloped after the dog as fast as he could. Who acts: dog, young Man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., wi
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 9

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The dog, on seeing the fox, started to chase it; while the young Man, thinking he was to have some fun at last, galloped after the dog as fast as he could.

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**Who acts:** dog, young Man · **What happens:** see, start, chase, think, have, gallop · **To what, where:** fox, fun, last · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (dog, young Man), 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:pg75000:23:9
# text = The dog, on seeing the fox, started to chase it; while the young Man, thinking he was to have some fun at last, galloped after the dog as fast as he could.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	chase	chase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
30	after	after	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl:agent	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	29	advmod	_	_
35	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | the dog *not said here* | the fox |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
| 2 | **start** | past | the dog |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **chase** | to-infinitive | the dog *not said here* | fox |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the young Man |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | past | dog | some fun |  | last |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Patient |
| 6 | **gallop** | participle | the dog *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the dog *obl:agent*; fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=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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