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title: Next morning the Ogre started off soon after daylight on his own bus… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning the Ogre started off soon after daylight on his own business, and as soon as he was gone the Prince ran upstairs to the glass room, where he found the lady lying in a trance as before. Who acts: Ogre, Prince, lady. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 79

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Next morning the Ogre started off soon after daylight on his own business, and as soon as he was gone the Prince ran upstairs to the glass room, where he found the lady lying in a trance as before.

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**Who acts:** Ogre, Prince, lady · **What happens:** start off, be, run, find, lie · **To what, where:** own business, lady, trance

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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, Prince, lady), 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:pg75000:17:79
# text = Next morning the Ogre started off soon after daylight on his own business, and as soon as he was gone the Prince ran upstairs to the glass room, where he found the lady lying in a trance as before.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	off	off	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
8	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	daylight	daylight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	business	business	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	as	as	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
18	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
25	upstairs	upstairs	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	glass	glass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	acl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	before	before	ADV	RB	_	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start off** | past | the Ogre |  |  | Ogre's own business | after daylight; morning | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **is** | past | Ogre |  |  |  |  | gone, soon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **run** | past | the Prince |  |  |  |  | to the glass room *result*; upstairs *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to room=Result |
| 4 | **find** | past | Ogre | the lady |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | the lady *not said here* |  |  | a trance |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in trance=Location |

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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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