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title: You must at once slay the boy, and taking the goblet very carefully… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: You must at once slay the boy, and taking the goblet very carefully in your hand, carry it upstairs to me. Who acts: You. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 105

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You must at once slay the boy, and taking the goblet very carefully in your hand, carry it upstairs to me.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** slay, take, carry · **To what, where:** boy, goblet, hand, me

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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:pg75000:17:105
# text = You must at once slay the boy, and taking the goblet very carefully in your hand, carry it upstairs to me.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	obl	_	_
5	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	goblet	goblet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **slay** | must | You | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | gerund | You *not said here* | the goblet |  | your hand |  | carefully *property* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent goblet=Value in hand=Location |
| 3 | **carry** | infinitive | You *not said here* | goblet | me |  |  | upstairs *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Destination |

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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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