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title: During the summer months he had eaten a quantity of grass and had no… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: During the summer months he had eaten a quantity of grass and had now become very fat and sleek, and was about twice as big as he had been in the spring. Who acts: Kyang. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., wit
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 26

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During the summer months he had eaten a quantity of grass and had now become very fat and sleek, and was about twice as big as he had been in the spring.

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**Who acts:** Kyang · **What happens:** eat, become, be · **To what, where:** quantity

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyang), 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:pg75000:8:26
# text = During the summer months he had eaten a quantity of grass and had now become very fat and sleek, and was about twice as big as he had been in the spring.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	quantity	quantity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	sleek	sleek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	about	about	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
25	as	as	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
27	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	33	cop	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eat** | past · perfect | Kyang | a quantity of grass |  |  | month |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Patient |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect | Kyang *not said here* |  |  |  | now | fat *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Kyang *not said here* |  |  |  |  | big, twice *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | Kyang |  |  |  | in the spring |  | tree rules |

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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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