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title: “Indeed,” replied Mother Raven, “that is very interesting; but how w… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Indeed,” replied Mother Raven, “that is very interesting; but how would it be possible to make the Spider believe that spring had come?” Who acts: Mother, that, it, spring. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider., with its depen
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 13

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“Indeed,” replied Mother Raven, “that is very interesting; but how would it be possible to make the Spider believe that spring had come?”

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**Who acts:** Mother, that, it, spring · **What happens:** reply, be, make, believe, come · **To what, where:** Spider · **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 Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, that, it, spring), 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:pg75000:24:13
# text = “Indeed,” replied Mother Raven, “that is very interesting; but how would it be possible to make the Spider believe that spring had come?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Mother	Mother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	Raven	Raven	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	interesting	interesting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	possible	possible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	csubj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Spider	Spider	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	believe	believe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
27	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: ask* | past | Mother |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | that |  |  |  |  | interesting *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | would | it |  |  |  |  | possible *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | the Spider |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spider=Product |
| 5 | **believe** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **come** *in a quote* | past · perfect | spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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