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title: But as she was looking at them and clapping her hands at each fresh… — Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat · tree and pragmatics
description: But as she was looking at them and clapping her hands at each fresh one, the crew quietly cut the anchor cable and were out to sea, before the princess or her friends on shore had any idea what was happening. Who acts: princess, crew, idea. A sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kin
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# Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 36

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But as she was looking at them and clapping her hands at each fresh one, the crew quietly cut the anchor cable and were out to sea, before the princess or her friends on shore had any idea what was happening.

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**Who acts:** princess, crew, idea · **What happens:** look, clap, cut, be, have, happen · **To what, where:** hands, anchor cable, idea

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, crew, idea), 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:pg76982:11:36
# text = But as she was looking at them and clapping her hands at each fresh one, the crew quietly cut the anchor cable and were out to sea, before the princess or her friends on shore had any idea what was happening.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
2	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	clapping	clap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	anchor	anchor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	cable	cable	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	out	out	ADV	RB	_	20	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	before	before	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
39	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	40	det	_	_
40	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
41	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	43	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	40	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | past · progressive | princess |  |  |  |  | at toys *= toy* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme |
| 2 | **clap** | gerund | princess *not said here* | princess's hands |  |  |  | at each fresh one | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 3 | **cut** | past | the crew | the anchor cable |  |  |  | quietly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cable=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | the crew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to sea; out *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the princess or princess's friends on shore | any idea |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 6 | **happen** | past · progressive | any idea |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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 of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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