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title: No sooner had she done so than the Spiders inside, seeing the green… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner had she done so than the Spiders inside, seeing the green expanse with water still lying upon it, thought that the spring had come and began moving about, and the old Mother Spider at once let herself down by a thread to see if it was really spring. Who acts: piece, spring, water. A senten
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 34

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No sooner had she done so than the Spiders inside, seeing the green expanse with water still lying upon it, thought that the spring had come and began moving about, and the old Mother Spider at once let herself down by a thread to see if it was really spring.

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**Who acts:** piece, spring, water · **What happens:** do, see, lie, think, come, begin · **To what, where:** green expanse, water, piece, spring · **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 (piece, spring, water), 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:pg75000:24:34
# text = No sooner had she done so than the Spiders inside, seeing the green expanse with water still lying upon it, thought that the spring had come and began moving about, and the old Mother Spider at once let herself down by a thread to see if it was really spring.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Spiders	spider	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	seeing	see	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	expanse	expanse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	still	still	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	conj	_	_
20	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	ccomp	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	_
31	moving	move	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	30	xcomp	_	_
32	about	about	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	Spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	obl	_	_
41	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
42	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	41	obj	_	_
43	down	down	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	acl	_	_
49	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	53	mark	_	_
50	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	nsubj	_	_
51	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
52	really	really	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **do** | past · perfect | piece |  |  |  |  | than the Spiders; the old Mother Spider *parataxis*; inside, soon *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | gerund |  | the green expanse |  |  |  | with water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer expanse=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | water | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon it=Location |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past · perfect | the spring |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **begin** | past | the spring *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 7 | **move about** | gerund | the spring *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **let down** | infinitive |  | piece |  |  |  | by a thread | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent herself=Theme at once=Asset |
| 9 | **see** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is a** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | water | spring |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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