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title: “Well,” replied the Musk Deer, “the facts are as follows: I was drin… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well,” replied the Musk Deer, “the facts are as follows: I was drinking just now at a stream in the forest when I noticed this Tiger shut up in a Woodcutter’s hut. Who acts: Musk, facts. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 77

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“Well,” replied the Musk Deer, “the facts are as follows: I was drinking just now at a stream in the forest when I noticed this Tiger shut up in a Woodcutter’s hut.

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**Who acts:** Musk, facts · **What happens:** reply, be, drink, notice, shut up · **To what, where:** stream, Tiger, hut · **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 (Musk, facts), 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:pg75000:4:77
# text = “Well,” replied the Musk Deer, “the facts are as follows: I was drinking just now at a stream in the forest when I noticed this Tiger shut up in a Woodcutter’s hut.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Musk	musk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	Deer	Deer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	facts	fact	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	drinking	drink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	noticed	notice	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	Tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	up	up	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	Woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’s	's	PART	POS	_	37	case	_	_
39	hut	hut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Musk |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the facts |  |  |  |  | follow *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drink** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the Musk *= musk* |  |  | a stream in the forest | now |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **notice** *in a quote* | past | the Musk *= musk* | this Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiger=Stimulus |
| 5 | **shut up** *in a quote* | participle |  | this Tiger *not said here* |  | a Woodcutter's hut |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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