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description: What you must do now, therefore, is as follows: you must descend into the vaults below the castle, and having traversed nine dark subterranean chambers, you will come to a blank stone wall. Who acts: you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince an
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 101

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What you must do now, therefore, is as follows: you must descend into the vaults below the castle, and having traversed nine dark subterranean chambers, you will come to a blank stone wall.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** do, be, descend, traverse, come · **To what, where:** vaults, nine dark subterranean chambers, blank stone wall

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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:pg75000:17:101
# text = What you must do now, therefore, is as follows: you must descend into the vaults below the castle, and having traversed nine dark subterranean chambers, you will come to a blank stone wall.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	4	obj	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	descend	descend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	below	below	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	aux	_	_
25	traversed	traverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
26	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
27	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	subterranean	subterranean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
37	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	_
38	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | must | you |  |  |  | now | What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | follow, therefore *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **descend** | must | you |  |  | the vaults below the castle |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vault=Location |
| 4 | **traverse** | gerund · perfect | you *not said here* | nine dark subterranean chambers |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **come** | future | you |  |  | a blank stone wall |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial\_Location |

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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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