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title: A month or two later the grain grew, and soon attained its full heig… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: A month or two later the grain grew, and soon attained its full height; and one day the poor man, going to look at it, was astonished to find that, instead of grain, each ear of corn contained a valuable jewel. Who acts: grain, poor man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Tra
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 16

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A month or two later the grain grew, and soon attained its full height; and one day the poor man, going to look at it, was astonished to find that, instead of grain, each ear of corn contained a valuable jewel.

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**Who acts:** grain, poor man · **What happens:** grow, attain, go, look, be, find · **To what, where:** full height, that, valuable jewel

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grain, poor man), 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:pg75000:5:16
# text = A month or two later the grain grew, and soon attained its full height; and one day the poor man, going to look at it, was astonished to find that, instead of grain, each ear of corn contained a valuable jewel.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	attained	attain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	38	case	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	fixed	_	_
38	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	41	det	_	_
41	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	corn	corn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	contained	contain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
45	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	valuable	valuable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | the grain |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attain** | past | the grain *not said here* | grain's full height |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | gerund | the poor man |  |  |  | day |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **look** | to-infinitive | the poor man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | at grain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the grain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **find** | to-infinitive | the grain *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 7 | **contain** | past | grain and each ear of corn | a valuable jewel |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme |

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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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