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title: So in order to frighten the strange object he took off his puggaree… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So in order to frighten the strange object he took off his puggaree and flung it at it. Who acts: Boy. 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 52

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So in order to frighten the strange object he took off his puggaree and flung it at it.

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**Who acts:** Boy · **What happens:** frighten, take off, fling · **To what, where:** strange object, puggaree, order

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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 (Boy), 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:pg75000:7:52
# text = So in order to frighten the strange object he took off his puggaree and flung it at it.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	5	mark	_	_
3	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	fixed	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	frighten	frighten	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	puggaree	puggaree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frighten** | to-infinitive |  | the strange object |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus object=Experiencer |
| 2 | **take off** | past | Boy | Boy's puggaree |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puggaree=Theme |
| 3 | **fling** | past | Boy *not said here* | puggaree |  | order |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at it=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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