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title: Now it happened that amongst these Mice there were two friends, whos… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Now it happened that amongst these Mice there were two friends, whose names were Rambé and Ambé, who were very much attached to one another. Who acts: it, names, Rambé. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., with its depe
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 15

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Now it happened that amongst these Mice there were two friends, whose names were Rambé and Ambé, who were very much attached to one another.

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**Who acts:** it, names, Rambé · **What happens:** happen, be, attach, name · **To what, where:** Rambé, one

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, names, Rambé), 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:pg75000:6:15
# text = Now it happened that amongst these Mice there were two friends, whose names were Rambé and Ambé, who were very much attached to one another.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	amongst	amongst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
8	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	9	expl	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	attached	attach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	obl	_	_
27	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | it |  |  |  | now | amongst this Mice | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme amongst mouse=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Rambé and Ambé's names | Rambé and Ambé |  |  |  | Ambé *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **attach** | past · passive |  | Rambé and Ambé | one |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: to one=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **name** |  | Rambé and Ambé |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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