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title: Thus it is his practice upon obtaining a fresh servant to set him st… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus it is his practice upon obtaining a fresh servant to set him strange tasks which terrify and repel him. Who acts: house, practice, strange tasks. 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
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 49

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Thus it is his practice upon obtaining a fresh servant to set him strange tasks which terrify and repel him.

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**Who acts:** house, practice, strange tasks · **What happens:** be, obtain, set, terrify, repel · **To what, where:** practice, fresh servant, person

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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 (house, practice, strange tasks), 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:pg75000:17:49
# text = Thus it is his practice upon obtaining a fresh servant to set him strange tasks which terrify and repel him.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	practice	practice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	obtaining	obtain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	terrify	terrify	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	repel	repel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | house | person's practice |  |  |  | person *nmod:poss*; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **obtain** | gerund | person's practice *not said here* | a fresh servant |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset servant=Theme |
| 3 | **set** | to-infinitive | person's practice *not said here* | person |  |  |  | strange tasks *obj* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent he=Theme task=Destination |
| 4 | **terrify** | present | strange tasks |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **repel** | present | strange tasks *not said here* | person |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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