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title: “As soon as I have got some eggs,” thought he to himself, “I shall s… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “As soon as I have got some eggs,” thought he to himself, “I shall set the hen to hatch them. Who acts: I. 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 and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 17

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“As soon as I have got some eggs,” thought he to himself, “I shall set the hen to hatch them.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** get, think, set, hatch · **To what, where:** eggs, Boy, hen · **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 (I), 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:pg75000:7:17
# text = “As soon as I have got some eggs,” thought he to himself, “I shall set the hen to hatch them.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hen	hen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	hatch	hatch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** *in a quote* | present · perfect | I | some eggs |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  | Boy | Boy |  |  | soon *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **set** *in a quote* | shall | I | the hen |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hatch** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | eggs *= egg* |  |  |  |  | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Product |

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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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