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title: Now the Ogre’s mascot is very carefully concealed, and its existence… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Now the Ogre’s mascot is very carefully concealed, and its existence and whereabouts are known to no person except myself. Who acts: mascot. 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 pragmatic
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 58

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Now the Ogre’s mascot is very carefully concealed, and its existence and whereabouts are known to no person except myself.

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**Who acts:** mascot · **What happens:** conceal, know, exist · **To what, where:** mascot, existence

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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 (mascot), 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:pg75000:17:58
# text = Now the Ogre’s mascot is very carefully concealed, and its existence and whereabouts are known to no person except myself.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	mascot	mascot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
12	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	whereabouts	whereabouts	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	13	conj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
20	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	except	except	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | **conceal** | present · passive |  | the Ogre's mascot |  |  | now | carefully *property* | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | present · passive |  | mascot's existence and whereabouts |  |  |  | to no person except myself | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **exist** |  | mascot |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state 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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