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title: And thus thinking he stamped his foot so violently that the jar of o… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus thinking he stamped his foot so violently that the jar of oil slipped off his back and was smashed to pieces on the ground. Who acts: nonsense, jar. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependen
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 30

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And thus thinking he stamped his foot so violently that the jar of oil slipped off his back and was smashed to pieces on the ground.

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**Who acts:** nonsense, jar · **What happens:** think, stamp, slip off, smash · **To what, where:** foot, back

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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 (nonsense, jar), 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:pg75000:7:30
# text = And thus thinking he stamped his foot so violently that the jar of oil slipped off his back and was smashed to pieces on the ground.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	stamped	stamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	violently	violently	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	oil	oil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	slipped	slip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
16	off	off	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	smashed	smash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | gerund | nonsense *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stamp** | past | nonsense | nonsense's foot |  |  |  | violently *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination |
| 3 | **slip off** | past | the jar of oil | nonsense's back |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent back=Patient |
| 4 | **smash** | past · passive | the jar of oil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to pieces on the ground *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to piece=Result |

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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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