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title: So thinking that the shade of the tree was the safest place to stay… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So thinking that the shade of the tree was the safest place to stay in, he climbed into the upper branches and very soon fell fast asleep. Who acts: Boy, shade. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., with its depen
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 56

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So thinking that the shade of the tree was the safest place to stay in, he climbed into the upper branches and very soon fell fast asleep.

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**Who acts:** Boy, shade · **What happens:** think, be, stay in, climb, fall, shade · **To what, where:** safest place, upper branches, tree

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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, shade), 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:pg75000:7:56
# text = So thinking that the shade of the tree was the safest place to stay in, he climbed into the upper branches and very soon fell fast asleep.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	thinking	think	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	safest	safe	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	stay	stay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	very	very	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
26	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	advmod	_	_
28	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	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 | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the shade of the tree | the safest place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **stay in** | to-infinitive | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **climb** | past | Boy |  |  | the upper branches |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into branch=Destination |
| 5 | **fall** | past | Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast, soon *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shade** |  |  | the tree |  |  |  |  | nom shade «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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