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title: As she alighted on the roof of the house the Frog gave an audible ch… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As she alighted on the roof of the house the Frog gave an audible chuckle. Who acts: Frog. 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 every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 2

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As she alighted on the roof of the house the Frog gave an audible chuckle.

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**Who acts:** Frog · **What happens:** alight, give · **To what, where:** roof, audible chuckle

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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 (Frog), 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:pg75000:9:2
# text = As she alighted on the roof of the house the Frog gave an audible chuckle.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	alighted	alight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	audible	audible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **alight** | participle | Frog |  |  | the roof of the house |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | the Frog | a audible chuckle |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chuckle=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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