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title: The Boy now ordered the drums to be beaten, and on hearing this soun… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Boy now ordered the drums to be beaten, and on hearing this sound the whole of the spider family, thinking that the noise was thunder, and that spring had undoubtedly arrived, hastily emerged from the Lady’s ear and let themselves down, one after another, on to the green cloth. Who acts: Boy, dr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 36

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The Boy now ordered the drums to be beaten, and on hearing this sound the whole of the spider family, thinking that the noise was thunder, and that spring had undoubtedly arrived, hastily emerged from the Lady’s ear and let themselves down, one after another, on to the green cloth.

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**Who acts:** Boy, drums, noise, spring · **What happens:** order, beat, hear, think, be, arrive · **To what, where:** drums, sound, thunder, ear, family, green cloth · **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, drums, noise, 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:pg75000:24:36
# text = The Boy now ordered the drums to be beaten, and on hearing this sound the whole of the spider family, thinking that the noise was thunder, and that spring had undoubtedly arrived, hastily emerged from the Lady’s ear and let themselves down, one after another, on to the green cloth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
8	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	spider	spider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	noise	noise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
31	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	undoubtedly	undoubtedly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	hastily	hastily	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	35	conj	_	_
39	from	from	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’s	's	PART	POS	_	41	case	_	_
43	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
46	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	45	obj	_	_
47	down	down	ADP	RP	_	45	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
49	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	obl	_	_
50	after	after	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
51	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	on	on	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
54	to	to	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | the Boy | the drums |  |  | now |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent drum=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **beat** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | the drums *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V» |
| 3 | **hear** | gerund | the Boy *not said here* | this sound |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 4 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | the Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | past | the noise | thunder |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **arrive** | past · perfect | that spring |  |  |  |  | undoubtedly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **emerge** | participle | that spring *not said here* |  |  | the Lady's ear |  | hastily *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from ear=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **let down** | infinitive | that spring *not said here* | family |  | the green cloth |  | one after another *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.asset»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme on cloth=Asset |

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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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