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title: Meanwhile the Boy, who had listened attentively to the colloquy of t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the Boy, who had listened attentively to the colloquy of the Ravens overhead, went straight off to hunt for the house where the Lady was suffering from pains in her ear, and he decided in his own mind to make this another opportunity for displaying his magical powers. Who acts: Boy, Lady, 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 28

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Meanwhile the Boy, who had listened attentively to the colloquy of the Ravens overhead, went straight off to hunt for the house where the Lady was suffering from pains in her ear, and he decided in his own mind to make this another opportunity for displaying his magical powers.

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**Who acts:** Boy, Lady, opportunity · **What happens:** listen, go, hunt, suffer, decide, make · **To what, where:** pains, own mind, this, magical powers

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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 (Boy, Lady, opportunity), 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:pg75000:24:28
# text = Meanwhile the Boy, who had listened attentively to the colloquy of the Ravens overhead, went straight off to hunt for the house where the Lady was suffering from pains in her ear, and he decided in his own mind to make this another opportunity for displaying his magical powers.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	listened	listen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	attentively	attentively	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	colloquy	colloquy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Ravens	Raven	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	overhead	overhead	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	off	off	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hunt	hunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	29	advmod	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
28	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	suffering	suffer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	acl	_	_
30	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	decided	decide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
41	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
45	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	obj	_	_
46	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	47	det	_	_
47	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
48	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	displaying	display	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	47	acl	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	magical	magical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	powers	power	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past · perfect | the Boy |  |  |  |  | to the colloquy of the Ravens; attentively, overhead *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to colloquy=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | past | the Boy |  |  |  |  | meanwhile, off *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **hunt** | to-infinitive | the Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for the house | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for house=Theme |
| 4 | **suffer** | past · progressive | the Lady |  |  | pains |  | in Lady's ear | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **decide** | past | Boy |  |  | Boy's own mind |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* | this |  |  |  | another opportunity *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset this=Beneficiary opportunity=Product |
| 7 | **display** | gerund | another opportunity *not said here* | Boy's magical powers |  |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Theme |
| 8 | **mind** |  | Boy |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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