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title: When evening approached, the Landlord and the Lady seated themselves… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When evening approached, the Landlord and the Lady seated themselves in the supper room, waiting to see whether or no the cat would appear as expected, whilst the Husband hid himself in a corner of the courtyard, just outside the door near where the cat was accustomed to pass. Who acts: evening, Lan
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 119

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When evening approached, the Landlord and the Lady seated themselves in the supper room, waiting to see whether or no the cat would appear as expected, whilst the Husband hid himself in a corner of the courtyard, just outside the door near where the cat was accustomed to pass.

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**Who acts:** evening, Landlord, cat, Husband · **What happens:** approach, seat, wait, see, appear, expect · **To what, where:** mice, supper room, Husband, corner, cat · **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 the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Landlord, cat, Husband), 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:pg75000:7:119
# text = When evening approached, the Landlord and the Lady seated themselves in the supper room, waiting to see whether or no the cat would appear as expected, whilst the Husband hid himself in a corner of the courtyard, just outside the door near where the cat was accustomed to pass.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Landlord	Landlord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Lady	Lady	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	supper	supper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	26	mark	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	no	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	26	discourse	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	ccomp	_	_
27	as	as	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	expected	expect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Husband	Husband	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
34	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	33	obj	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	just	just	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
43	outside	outside	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	_
46	near	near	ADP	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
47	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	51	advmod	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	_
50	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | past | evening |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seat** | past | the Landlord and the Lady | mice *= mouse* |  | the supper room |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Value in room=Location |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund | the Landlord and the Lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | the Landlord and the Lady *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **appear** | would | the cat |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **expect** | participle | the cat *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hide** | past | the Husband | Husband |  | a corner of the courtyard and the door |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location |
| 8 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | the cat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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