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title: On hearing this ridiculous story the King was much amused, and laugh… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On hearing this ridiculous story the King was much amused, and laughed very heartily; and he gave the foolish Boy a piece of gold, and told him to go home to his Mother. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young M
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 38

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On hearing this ridiculous story the King was much amused, and laughed very heartily; and he gave the foolish Boy a piece of gold, and told him to go home to his Mother.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** hear, be, laugh, give, tell, go · **To what, where:** ridiculous story, piece, foolish Boy, Boy · **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 (King), 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:pg75000:7:38
# text = On hearing this ridiculous story the King was much amused, and laughed very heartily; and he gave the foolish Boy a piece of gold, and told him to go home to his Mother.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	much	much	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	amused	amused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
14	very	very	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	heartily	heartily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	iobj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	iobj	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
33	home	home	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	Mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund |  | this ridiculous story |  |  |  | the King *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | amused *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **laugh** | past |  |  |  |  |  | heartily *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | King | a piece of gold | the foolish Boy |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient piece=Theme |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | Boy |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 6 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | to Boy's Mother; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to mother=Initial\_Location |

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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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