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title: The Head Cook and all the Under Cooks, the Head Chamberlain and all… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Head Cook and all the Under Cooks, the Head Chamberlain and all the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and all the Under Ushers, and all the officials of lower degree, were thrown into a dreadful state of confusion and alarm at the event. Who acts: Head Usher. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibe
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 41

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The Head Cook and all the Under Cooks, the Head Chamberlain and all the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and all the Under Ushers, and all the officials of lower degree, were thrown into a dreadful state of confusion and alarm at the event.

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**Who acts:** Head Usher · **What happens:** throw · **To what, where:** officials, dreadful state, Head Cook

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Head Usher), 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:pg75000:15:41
# text = The Head Cook and all the Under Cooks, the Head Chamberlain and all the Under Chamberlains, the Head Usher and all the Under Ushers, and all the officials of lower degree, were thrown into a dreadful state of confusion and alarm at the event.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Cook	Cook	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Cooks	Cook	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Chamberlain	Chamberlain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	Chamberlains	Chamberlain	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Head	Head	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Usher	Usher	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Under	Under	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Ushers	usher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
29	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	31	det:predet	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	officials	official	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
38	into	into	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | past · passive | the Head Usher and all Under Ushers *not said here* | all officials of lower degree |  |  |  | into a dreadful state of confusion and alarm *result*; at the event | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into state=Result |

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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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