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title: The Boy, not knowing what it was, lay down upon this and fell fast a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Boy, not knowing what it was, lay down upon this and fell fast asleep, and soon smeared himself all over with honey. Who acts: Boy, honeycomb. 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
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 81

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The Boy, not knowing what it was, lay down upon this and fell fast asleep, and soon smeared himself all over with honey.

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**Who acts:** Boy, honeycomb · **What happens:** not know, be, lay down, fall, smear · **To what, where:** Boy, this · **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 (Boy, honeycomb), 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:pg75000:7:81
# text = The Boy, not knowing what it was, lay down upon this and fell fast asleep, and soon smeared himself all over with honey.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Boy	Boy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	ccomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	lay	lay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	smeared	smear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obj	_	_
23	all	all	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	over	over	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | gerund | the Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is a** | past | honeycomb | the Boy |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lay down** | infinitive | the Boy |  |  | this |  | down *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon this=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past | the Boy *not said here* |  |  |  |  | asleep, fast *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **smear** | past | the Boy *not said here* | Boy |  |  |  | with honey; over, soon *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Destination with honey=Theme |

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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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