--- title: So he picked from the table a narrow-mouthed copper vessel and conce… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: So he picked from the table a narrow-mouthed copper vessel and concealed it in his lap, and whilst eating his food he every now and then dropped into it some particularly succulent dainty, which he thought his Mother would enjoy. Who acts: feast, succulent dainty, Mother. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, succulent dainty, Mother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:7:68 # text = So he picked from the table a narrow-mouthed copper vessel and concealed it in his lap, and whilst eating his food he every now and then dropped into it some particularly succulent dainty, which he thought his Mother would enjoy. 1 So so ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 table table NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 8 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 9 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 mouthed mouth VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 amod _ _ 11 copper copper NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 vessel vessel NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 concealed conceal VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 obj _ _ 16 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 lap lap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 whilst whilst SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 22 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ _ 23 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 25 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 26 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 25 conj _ _ 27 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 parataxis _ _ 31 into into ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obl _ _ 33 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 36 det _ _ 34 particularly particularly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 succulent succulent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 dainty dainty NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 39 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 40 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 acl _ _ 41 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 Mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 nsubj _ _ 43 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 44 aux _ _ 44 enjoy enjoy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick** | past | feast | a mouthed copper vessel | | the table | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme from table=Source | | 2 | **mouth** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **conceal** | past | feast *not said here* | vessel | | feast's lap | | | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in lap=Location | | 4 | **eat** | gerund | feast *not said here* | feast's food | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | | 5 | **drop** | past | feast | some succulent dainty | | food | now; then | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dainty=Theme into it=Destination | | 6 | **think** *speech: other* | past | some succulent dainty | | | | | feast *nsubj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 7 | **enjoy** | would | feast's Mother | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/69/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/)