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title: They noticed that the old Cow contented herself with the driest and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: They noticed that the old Cow contented herself with the driest and smallest patches of grass, whilst showing her Calf where to find the richest and most luxuriant pasture, and that she willingly deprived herself of any comfort in order to afford pleasure to the youngster. Who acts: words, old Cow, 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 48

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They noticed that the old Cow contented herself with the driest and smallest patches of grass, whilst showing her Calf where to find the richest and most luxuriant pasture, and that she willingly deprived herself of any comfort in order to afford pleasure to the youngster.

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**Who acts:** words, old Cow, Calf · **What happens:** notice, content, show, find, deprive, afford · **To what, where:** Cow, richest, Calf, order, pleasure · **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 (words, old Cow, Calf), 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:pg75000:4:48
# text = They noticed that the old Cow contented herself with the driest and smallest patches of grass, whilst showing her Calf where to find the richest and most luxuriant pasture, and that she willingly deprived herself of any comfort in order to afford pleasure to the youngster.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Cow	Cow	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	contented	content	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	driest	dry	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	smallest	small	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	conj	_	_
14	patches	patch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	showing	show	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Calf	calf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	24	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	29	advmod	_	_
29	luxuriant	luxuriant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	pasture	pasture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	willingly	willingly	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	deprived	deprive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
37	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	36	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	comfort	comfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
45	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	youngster	youngster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **notice** | past | words *= word* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **content** | past | the old Cow | Cow |  |  |  | with the driest patches of grass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the old Cow *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | Cow's Calf | the richest and luxuriant pasture |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rich=Topic |
| 5 | **deprive** | past | Calf | Calf |  | order |  | of any comfort; willingly *property* | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent herself=Source of comfort=Theme |
| 6 | **afford** | to-infinitive | Calf *not said here* | pleasure |  |  |  | to the youngster | 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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