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title: The King, who had almost lost faith in Lamas of any kind, received h… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The King, who had almost lost faith in Lamas of any kind, received him courteously, and asked him what he could do to help in the matter. Who acts: lost faith, King, country. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 6

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The King, who had almost lost faith in Lamas of any kind, received him courteously, and asked him what he could do to help in the matter.

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**Who acts:** lost faith, King, country · **What happens:** lose, receive, ask, do, help · **To what, where:** country, matter

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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 (lost faith, King, country), 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:pg75000:17:6
# text = The King, who had almost lost faith in Lamas of any kind, received him courteously, and asked him what he could do to help in the matter.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Lamas	lama	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	courteously	courteously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	iobj	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	obj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 | **lose** | past · perfect | lost faith in Lamas of any kind |  |  |  |  | almost *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **receive** | past | the King  lost faith in Lamas of any kind | country |  |  |  | courteously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the King  lost faith in Lamas of any kind *not said here* |  | country |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **do** *not said to happen* | could | country |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 5 | **help** | to-infinitive | country *not said here* |  |  | the matter |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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