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title: It dropped the lantern upon the threshold, bounded across the courty… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: It dropped the lantern upon the threshold, bounded across the courtyard, and seized the mouse just as it was entering its hole. Who acts: courtyard. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependency tree a
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 127

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It dropped the lantern upon the threshold, bounded across the courtyard, and seized the mouse just as it was entering its hole.

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**Who acts:** courtyard · **What happens:** drop, bound, seize, enter · **To what, where:** lantern, threshold, courtyard, mouse, hole

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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 (courtyard), 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:pg75000:7:127
# text = It dropped the lantern upon the threshold, bounded across the courtyard, and seized the mouse just as it was entering its hole.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dropped	drop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	lantern	lantern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bounded	bound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	across	across	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drop** | past | courtyard | the lantern |  | the threshold |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme upon threshold=Destination |
| 2 | **bound** | participle |  | the threshold *not said here* |  | the courtyard |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across courtyard=Trajectory |
| 3 | **seize** | past | courtyard *not said here* | the mouse |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 4 | **enter** | past · progressive | courtyard | courtyard's hole |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hole=Destination |

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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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