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title: When the King saw them coming in together, he asked his Servant what… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When the King saw them coming in together, he asked his Servant what he wanted, and why he was bringing in a strange Boy with him. Who acts: King, Servants. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its dependenc
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 33

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When the King saw them coming in together, he asked his Servant what he wanted, and why he was bringing in a strange Boy with him.

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**Who acts:** King, Servants · **What happens:** see, come in, ask, want, bring · **To what, where:** Servants, Servant

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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 (King, Servants), 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:pg75000:7:33
# text = When the King saw them coming in together, he asked his Servant what he wanted, and why he was bringing in a strange Boy with him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
7	in	in	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	obj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wanted	want	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	22	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|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	bringing	bring	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the King | Servants *= servant* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **come in** | gerund | Servants *= servant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | King | King's Servant |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent servant=Recipient |
| 4 | **want** | past | King | King's Servant |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
| 5 | **bring** | past · progressive | King |  |  |  |  | in a strange Boy; with Boy | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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