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title: On entering the kitchen the Ogre pointed to a great stove standing i… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On entering the kitchen the Ogre pointed to a great stove standing in the centre, and said to the Prince: Who acts: Ogre, great stove. 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 pragmatics of e
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 73

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On entering the kitchen the Ogre pointed to a great stove standing in the centre, and said to the Prince:

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**Who acts:** Ogre, great stove · **What happens:** enter, point, stand, say · **To what, where:** kitchen, great stove, centre, Prince · **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 (Ogre, great stove), 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:pg75000:17:73
# text = On entering the kitchen the Ogre pointed to a great stove standing in the centre, and said to the Prince:
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	stove	stove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | gerund | the Ogre *not said here* | the kitchen |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme kitchen=Destination |
| 2 | **point** | past | the Ogre |  | a great stove |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to stove=Recipient |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | a great stove *not said here* |  |  | the centre |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Ogre *not said here* |  | the Prince |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to prince=Recipient |

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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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