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title: You have fulfilled all of his tasks without allowing yourself to be… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: You have fulfilled all of his tasks without allowing yourself to be terrified by the strange portents which you have observed, but on his return he will no doubt set you further and more disagreeable duties to perform. Who acts: You, strange portents, doubt, process. A sentence of «Folk tales from T
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 52

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You have fulfilled all of his tasks without allowing yourself to be terrified by the strange portents which you have observed, but on his return he will no doubt set you further and more disagreeable duties to perform.

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**Who acts:** You, strange portents, doubt, process · **What happens:** fulfil, allow, terrify, observe, set, perform · **To what, where:** all, yourself, strange portents, you, return

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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 (You, strange portents, doubt, process), 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:pg75000:17:52
# text = You have fulfilled all of his tasks without allowing yourself to be terrified by the strange portents which you have observed, but on his return he will no doubt set you further and more disagreeable duties to perform.
1	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	allowing	allow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	terrified	terrify	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	portents	portent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	observed	observe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
29	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
30	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
32	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	further	further	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
36	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	duties	duty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | present · perfect | You | all of process's tasks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **allow** | gerund | You *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **terrify** | to-infinitive · passive | the strange portents |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **observe** | present · perfect · passive |  | the strange portents |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **set** | past | no doubt | you |  | process's return |  | more disagreeable duties *conj*; further *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme on return=Destination |
| 6 | **perform** | to-infinitive | no doubt *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **task** |  | process |  |  |  |  |  | nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **return** |  | process |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «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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