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title: Not finding him where she had left him she hopped to the edge of the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Not finding him where she had left him she hopped to the edge of the well and peeped over, craning her head from side to side. Who acts: gutter. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 18

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Not finding him where she had left him she hopped to the edge of the well and peeped over, craning her head from side to side.

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**Who acts:** gutter · **What happens:** not find, leave, hop, peep over, crane · **To what, where:** Crow, edge, head, side

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gutter), 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:pg75000:9:18
# text = Not finding him where she had left him she hopped to the edge of the well and peeped over, craning her head from side to side.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|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	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
8	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	hopped	hop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	edge	edge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	well	well	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	peeped	peep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
19	over	over	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	craning	crane	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | gerund | gutter *not said here* | Crow |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **leave** | past · perfect | gutter | Crow |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **hop** | past | gutter |  |  | the edge of the well |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to edge=Destination |
| 4 | **peep over** | participle | gutter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | over *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **crane** | gerund | gutter *not said here* | gutter's head |  | side to side |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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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