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title: I will lie down on the couch, and you must place the flower behind m… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: I will lie down on the couch, and you must place the flower behind my ear just as it was before; and when I fall into a trance you must at once go out into the courtyard and wait the return of the Ogre, and mind you are careful not to let him know that you have been inside the castle.” Who acts: I, 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 69

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I will lie down on the couch, and you must place the flower behind my ear just as it was before; and when I fall into a trance you must at once go out into the courtyard and wait the return of the Ogre, and mind you are careful not to let him know that you have been inside the castle.”

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**Who acts:** I, you, flower, mind, Ogre · **What happens:** lie down, place, be, fall, go out, wait · **To what, where:** couch, ear, trance, courtyard, return, Ogre · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (I, you, flower, mind), 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:pg75000:17:69
# text = I will lie down on the couch, and you must place the flower behind my ear just as it was before; and when I fall into a trance you must at once go out into the courtyard and wait the return of the Ogre, and mind you are careful not to let him know that you have been inside the castle.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	before	before	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
25	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	advcl	_	_
28	into	into	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
32	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	35	obl	_	_
35	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
36	out	out	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
37	into	into	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	return	return	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
51	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	_
52	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
53	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
54	to	to	PART	TO	_	55	mark	_	_
55	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	52	advcl	_	_
56	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	obj	_	_
57	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	55	xcomp	_	_
58	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	64	mark	_	_
59	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
60	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	aux	_	_
61	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	64	cop	_	_
62	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie down** | future | I |  |  | the couch |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location |
| 2 | **place** | must | you |  |  | my ear |  | the flower *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | flower |  |  |  |  | before *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | present | I |  |  |  |  | into a trance *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trance=Result |
| 5 | **go out** | must | you |  |  | the courtyard |  | out *property* | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **wait** | infinitive | I *not said here* | the return of the Ogre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | mind |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj*; careful *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **not** **let** | to-infinitive | mind *not said here* | Ogre |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **know** | infinitive | Ogre *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 10 | **is** | present · perfect | you |  |  | the castle |  |  | tree rules |
| 11 | **return** |  | the Ogre |  |  |  |  |  | nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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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