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title: On receiving these instructions the Prince went down into the vaults… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On receiving these instructions the Prince went down into the vaults at the basement of the castle, and having traversed nine great subterranean chambers, he found his progress stopped by a blank wall. Who acts: Prince, drop, progress. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Trave
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 107

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On receiving these instructions the Prince went down into the vaults at the basement of the castle, and having traversed nine great subterranean chambers, he found his progress stopped by a blank wall.

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**Who acts:** Prince, drop, progress · **What happens:** receive, go down, traverse, find, stop, progress · **To what, where:** instructions, vaults, nine great subterranean chambers · **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 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 (Prince, drop, progress), 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:pg75000:17:107
# text = On receiving these instructions the Prince went down into the vaults at the basement of the castle, and having traversed nine great subterranean chambers, he found his progress stopped by a blank wall.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	instructions	instruction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	basement	basement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux	_	_
21	traversed	traverse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
22	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
23	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
24	subterranean	subterranean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	chambers	chamber	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	progress	progress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	stopped	stop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	ccomp	_	_
32	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 | **receive** | gerund | the Prince *not said here* | this instructions |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instruction=Theme |
| 2 | **go down** | past | the Prince |  |  | the vaults at the basement of the castle |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **traverse** | gerund · perfect | the Prince *not said here* | nine great subterranean chambers |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | drop |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **stop** | past | drop's progress |  |  |  |  | by a blank wall | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **progress** |  | drop |  |  |  |  |  | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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