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title: So saying, the Princess lay down upon her couch, and the young man h… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, the Princess lay down upon her couch, and the young man having placed the flower behind her ear she instantly fell into a deep trance. Who acts: Princess, young man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with i
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 70

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So saying, the Princess lay down upon her couch, and the young man having placed the flower behind her ear she instantly fell into a deep trance.

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**Who acts:** Princess, young man · **What happens:** say, lie down, place, fall · **To what, where:** couch, flower, ear, deep trance · **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 (Princess, young man), 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:pg75000:17:70
# text = So saying, the Princess lay down upon her couch, and the young man having placed the flower behind her ear she instantly fell into a deep trance.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	down	down	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	aux	_	_
17	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	into	into	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **lie down** | past | the Princess |  |  | Princess's couch |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon couch=Location |
| 3 | **place** | gerund · perfect | the young man | the flower |  | Princess's ear |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme behind ear=Destination |
| 4 | **fall** | past | Princess | Princess's ear *not said here* |  | a deep trance |  | instantly *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient ear=Result |

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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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