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title: The King gladly agreed to this condition, and asked the Lama how he… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The King gladly agreed to this condition, and asked the Lama how he should proceed in order to secure the desired result. Who acts: King, dog. 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 pragmat
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 12

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The King gladly agreed to this condition, and asked the Lama how he should proceed in order to secure the desired result.

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**Who acts:** King, dog · **What happens:** agree, ask, proceed, secure, desire · **To what, where:** Lama, order, desired result

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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 (King, dog), 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:pg75000:17:12
# text = The King gladly agreed to this condition, and asked the Lama how he should proceed in order to secure the desired result.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	condition	condition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Lama	Lama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	iobj	_	_
13	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	secure	secure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	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 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | the King |  |  |  |  | to this condition; gladly *property* | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King *not said here* |  | the Lama |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lama=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **proceed** *not said to happen* | should | dog |  |  | order |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **secure** | to-infinitive | dog *not said here* | the desired result |  |  |  |  | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition result=Theme |
| 5 | **desire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |

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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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