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title: My bill is quite nice and sharp now, so come along up and be eaten.” — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: My bill is quite nice and sharp now, so come along up and be eaten.” Who acts: bill, My. 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 21

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My bill is quite nice and sharp now, so come along up and be eaten.”

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**Who acts:** bill, My · **What happens:** be, come up, eat, bill

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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 (bill, My), 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:pg75000:9:21
# text = My bill is quite nice and sharp now, so come along up and be eaten.”
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	eaten	eat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | My bill |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | My bill *not said here* |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **come up** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | along *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **eat** | infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V» |
| 5 | **bill** |  | My |  |  |  |  |  | nom bill «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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