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description: So the two set off together side by side, and after proceeding a short distance down the road they came upon a large Tree growing by the roadside. Who acts: two, matters. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 23

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So the two set off together side by side, and after proceeding a short distance down the road they came upon a large Tree growing by the roadside.

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**Who acts:** two, matters · **What happens:** set off, proceed, come, grow · **To what, where:** side, short distance, road

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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 (two, matters), 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:pg75000:4:23
# text = So the two set off together side by side, and after proceeding a short distance down the road they came upon a large Tree growing by the roadside.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
12	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	proceeding	proceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	down	down	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Tree	Tree	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	roadside	roadside	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set off** | past | the two | side by side |  |  |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **proceed** | gerund | matters *= matter* *not said here* | a short distance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come** | past | matters *= matter* |  |  | the road |  | upon a large Tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme down road=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **grow** | gerund | matters *= matter* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=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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