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title: The King and Queen, though reluctant to part with any of their child… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The King and Queen, though reluctant to part with any of their children, resolved to abide by their bargain, and they consulted together as to which of the young Princes should be handed over to the Lama. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Conno
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 19

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The King and Queen, though reluctant to part with any of their children, resolved to abide by their bargain, and they consulted together as to which of the young Princes should be handed over to the Lama.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** resolve, abide, consult, hand over, bargain · **To what, where:** children, Lama

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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), 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:pg75000:17:19
# text = The King and Queen, though reluctant to part with any of their children, resolved to abide by their bargain, and they consulted together as to which of the young Princes should be handed over to the Lama.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	reluctant	reluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	abide	abide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	consulted	consult	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	29	case	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	fixed	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Princes	Prince	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
34	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	parataxis	_	_
37	over	over	ADP	RP	_	36	compound:prt	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	Lama	Lama	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | participle |  | King's children *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **abide** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | by King's bargain | tree rules |
| 3 | **consult** | past | the King  reluctant part with any of King's children and Queen |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hand over** | should · passive |  |  | the Lama |  |  | of the young Princes; which *obl* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: of prince=Initial\_Location to lama=Destination |
| 5 | **bargain** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom bargain «communication 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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