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title: And so saying he shut the door and bolted it; and he and the Deer we… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And so saying he shut the door and bolted it; and he and the Deer went on their way safely, leaving the Tiger shut up inside, where he shortly after starved to death. Who acts: Hare, leaving. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 102

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And so saying he shut the door and bolted it; and he and the Deer went on their way safely, leaving the Tiger shut up inside, where he shortly after starved to death.

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**Who acts:** Hare, leaving · **What happens:** say, shut, bolt, go, leave, shut up · **To what, where:** door, way, Tiger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, leaving), 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:pg75000:4:102
# text = And so saying he shut the door and bolted it; and he and the Deer went on their way safely, leaving the Tiger shut up inside, where he shortly after starved to death.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	csubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	shut	shut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	34	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
34	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **shut** | past | Hare | the door |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **bolt** | past | Hare *not said here* | door |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **go** | past | Hare |  |  | places's way |  | safely *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
| 5 | **leave** | gerund |  | the Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme |
| 6 | **shut up** | past | leaving |  |  |  |  | inside *property* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **starve** | participle | Hare |  |  |  |  | to death; shortly *property* | 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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