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title: When these things had been made ready he spread the piece of green c… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When these things had been made ready he spread the piece of green cloth on the table and sprinkled some water over it, and he then told the Lady of the house to lean across the table so that her painful ear should come above the patch of green cloth. Who acts: Boy, painful ear. A sentence of «Folk 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 33

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When these things had been made ready he spread the piece of green cloth on the table and sprinkled some water over it, and he then told the Lady of the house to lean across the table so that her painful ear should come above the patch of green cloth.

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**Who acts:** Boy, painful ear · **What happens:** make, spread, sprinkle, tell, lean, come · **To what, where:** things, piece, table, water, Lady, patch · **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 (Boy, painful ear), 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:pg75000:24:33
# text = When these things had been made ready he spread the piece of green cloth on the table and sprinkled some water over it, and he then told the Lady of the house to lean across the table so that her painful ear should come above the patch of green cloth.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
7	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sprinkled	sprinkle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	over	over	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	_
28	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	iobj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	ccomp	_	_
36	across	across	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
39	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	45	mark	_	_
40	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	39	fixed	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	painful	painful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
45	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	advcl	_	_
46	above	above	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	patch	patch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | this things |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **spread** | past | Boy | the piece of green cloth |  | the table |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent piece=Theme on table=Destination |
| 3 | **sprinkle** | past | Boy *not said here* | some water |  | water |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme over it=Destination |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Boy |  | the Lady of the house |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **lean** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the table |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **come** | should | piece's painful ear |  |  | the patch of green cloth |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above patch=Location |

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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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