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title: Thunderstorms, as you know, only occur in the spring, and the Spider… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Thunderstorms, as you know, only occur in the spring, and the Spiders on hearing this noise will feel convinced that spring has really come, and will emerge without any further hesitation. Who acts: you, Thunderstorms, Spiders, spring. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Trave
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 16

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Thunderstorms, as you know, only occur in the spring, and the Spiders on hearing this noise will feel convinced that spring has really come, and will emerge without any further hesitation.

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**Who acts:** you, Thunderstorms, Spiders, spring · **What happens:** know, occur, hear, feel, come, emerge · **To what, where:** noise

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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 (you, Thunderstorms, Spiders, 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:pg75000:24:16
# text = Thunderstorms, as you know, only occur in the spring, and the Spiders on hearing this noise will feel convinced that spring has really come, and will emerge without any further hesitation.
1	Thunderstorms	thunderstorm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	occur	occur	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
16	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
22	convinced	convinced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
23	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	really	really	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
31	emerge	emerge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
32	without	without	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
34	further	further	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **occur** | present | Thunderstorms |  |  |  | spring |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | the Spiders *not said here* | this noise |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus |
| 4 | **feel** | future | the Spiders |  |  |  |  | convinced *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **come** | present | spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **emerge** | future | the Spiders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without any further hesitation | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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