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title: After travelling for some considerable distance they arrived at the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After travelling for some considerable distance they arrived at the top of a high pass, whence the Ogre, pointing down to a great castle standing in the valley below, said to the young Prince: Who acts: Lama, Ogre, great castle. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 22

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After travelling for some considerable distance they arrived at the top of a high pass, whence the Ogre, pointing down to a great castle standing in the valley below, said to the young Prince:

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**Who acts:** Lama, Ogre, great castle · **What happens:** travel, arrive, point down, stand, say · **To what, where:** considerable distance, top, great castle, valley, young Prince · **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 (Lama, Ogre, great castle), 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:pg75000:17:22
# text = After travelling for some considerable distance they arrived at the top of a high pass, whence the Ogre, pointing down to a great castle standing in the valley below, said to the young Prince:
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	travelling	travel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
5	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	pointing	point	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
22	down	down	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	below	below	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
33	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	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 | **travel** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for some considerable distance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | Lama | some considerable distance *not said here* |  | the top of a high pass |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **point down** | gerund | the Ogre |  | a great castle |  |  | down, whence *property* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to castle=Recipient |
| 4 | **stand** | gerund | a great castle *not said here* |  |  | the valley |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the young Prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=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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