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title: She paused here for a moment and was just about to begin to swallow… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: She paused here for a moment and was just about to begin to swallow the Frog when the Frog gave another chuckle. Who acts: gutter, 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 clau
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 7

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She paused here for a moment and was just about to begin to swallow the Frog when the Frog gave another chuckle.

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**Who acts:** gutter, Frog · **What happens:** pause, be, swallow, give · **To what, where:** Frog, 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 (gutter, 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:pg75000:9:7
# text = She paused here for a moment and was just about to begin to swallow the Frog when the Frog gave another chuckle.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	just	just	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	about	about	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	begin	begin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	swallow	swallow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Frog	Frog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	chuckle	chuckle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **pause** | past | gutter |  |  | here | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | gutter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about, begin *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **swallow** | to-infinitive | gutter *not said here* | the Frog |  |  |  |  | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | the Frog | another 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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