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title: “May it please Your Majesty,” replied the first Thief, “I have ventu… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “May it please Your Majesty,” replied the first Thief, “I have ventured to bring a small gift for you.” Who acts: audience, first Thief. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 52

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“May it please Your Majesty,” replied the first Thief, “I have ventured to bring a small gift for you.”

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**Who acts:** audience, first Thief · **What happens:** please, reply, venture, bring · **To what, where:** Majesty, small gift · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (audience, first Thief), 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:pg75000:15:52
# text = “May it please Your Majesty,” replied the first Thief, “I have ventured to bring a small gift for you.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	May	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
9	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	12	amod	_	_
12	Thief	thief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	gift	gift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** *in a quote* | may | audience | Your Majesty |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the first Thief |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **venture** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the first Thief *= thief* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the first Thief *= thief* *not said here* | a small gift |  |  |  | for you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent gift=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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