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title: “Here, oh King, are nine pills; three of these must be administered… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Here, oh King, are nine pills; three of these must be administered to the Queen, three to the horse and three to the 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 14

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“Here, oh King, are nine pills; three of these must be administered to the Queen, three to the horse and three to the dog.

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**What happens:** be, administer · **To what, where:** nine pills, three, Queen

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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: 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:pg75000:17:14
# text = “Here, oh King, are nine pills; three of these must be administered to the Queen, three to the horse and three to the dog.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	pills	pill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	nmod	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	administered	administer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	appos	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | nine pills |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **administer** *in a quote* | must · passive |  | three of these | the Queen |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to queen=Recipient |

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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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