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title: “Never mind,” said she; “there is a large white stone lying at the f… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Never mind,” said she; “there is a large white stone lying at the foot of the staircase. Who acts: hand, large white stone. 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 eve
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 74

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“Never mind,” said she; “there is a large white stone lying at the foot of the staircase.

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**Who acts:** hand, large white stone · **What happens:** not mind, say, be, lie · **To what, where:** foot · **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 (hand, large white stone), 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:pg75000:7:74
# text = “Never mind,” said she; “there is a large white stone lying at the foot of the staircase.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
3	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
16	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	staircase	staircase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mind** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* | present | a large white stone |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** *in a quote* | gerund | a large white stone *not said here* |  |  | the foot of the staircase |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=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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