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title: These tasks grow daily more difficult and more odious, until at last… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: These tasks grow daily more difficult and more odious, until at last one day the servant disobeys his orders, and forthwith his body is at the mercy of the Ogre, who devours the heart and places the lifeless body in a large chamber at the back of this house. Who acts: tasks, servant, body, mercy. A 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 50

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These tasks grow daily more difficult and more odious, until at last one day the servant disobeys his orders, and forthwith his body is at the mercy of the Ogre, who devours the heart and places the lifeless body in a large chamber at the back of this house.

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**Who acts:** tasks, servant, body, mercy · **What happens:** grow, disobey, forthwith, be, devour, order · **To what, where:** orders, mercy, heart, large chamber

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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 (tasks, servant, body, mercy), 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:pg75000:17:50
# text = These tasks grow daily more difficult and more odious, until at last one day the servant disobeys his orders, and forthwith his body is at the mercy of the Ogre, who devours the heart and places the lifeless body in a large chamber at the back of this house.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	grow	grow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	odious	odious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
11	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	disobeys	disobey	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	forthwith	forthwith	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	ccomp	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	devours	devour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	lifeless	lifeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
47	at	at	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	52	det	_	_
52	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **grow** | present | this tasks |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **disobey** | present | the servant | servant's orders |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **forthwith** | past | the servant *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | servant's body |  |  | the mercy |  | of the Ogre | tree rules |
| 5 | **devour** | present | the mercy | the heart and places |  | a large chamber at the back of this house |  | the lifeless body *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **order** |  | servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication transitive»: 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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