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title: This he is bound to do, and while he is going round the stove you ma… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This he is bound to do, and while he is going round the stove you may perhaps find an opportunity for stabbing him. Who acts: This, back, you, opportunity. 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 an
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 65

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This he is bound to do, and while he is going round the stove you may perhaps find an opportunity for stabbing him.

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**Who acts:** This, back, you, opportunity · **What happens:** be, do, go, find, stab · **To what, where:** stove, opportunity, back

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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 (This, back, you, opportunity), 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:pg75000:17:65
# text = This he is bound to do, and while he is going round the stove you may perhaps find an opportunity for stabbing him.
1	This	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bound	bound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
13	round	round	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	stabbing	stab	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | This |  |  |  |  | back *nsubj*; bound *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | to-infinitive | This *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **go** | present · progressive | back |  |  | the stove |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme round stove=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **find** | may | you | a opportunity |  |  |  | perhaps *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic |
| 5 | **stab** | gerund | a opportunity *not said here* | back |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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