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title: He will seat himself in his chair of state in his great hall of audi… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: He will seat himself in his chair of state in his great hall of audience and will order you to kow-tow to him three times, and if you do so he will seize an opportunity whilst you are lying on your face before him to do you some injury. Who acts: you, Ogre. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by W
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 86

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He will seat himself in his chair of state in his great hall of audience and will order you to kow-tow to him three times, and if you do so he will seize an opportunity whilst you are lying on your face before him to do you some injury.

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**Who acts:** you, Ogre · **What happens:** order, do, seize, lie · **To what, where:** you, opportunity, face, injury, seat

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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 (you, Ogre), 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:pg75000:17:86
# text = He will seat himself in his chair of state in his great hall of audience and will order you to kow-tow to him three times, and if you do so he will seize an opportunity whilst you are lying on your face before him to do you some injury.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	nmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	in	in	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	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	audience	audience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	order	order	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	kow	kow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	tow	tow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
31	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
33	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
37	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
41	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
42	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	advcl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
46	before	before	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
48	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	advcl	_	_
50	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	49	iobj	_	_
51	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	52	det	_	_
52	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | future |  |  | you |  |  | to kow tow to Ogre | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 2 | **do** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seize** | future | Ogre | a opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme |
| 4 | **lie** | present · progressive | you |  |  | your face | before Ogre |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on face=Location |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | some injury | you |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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