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title: If you succeed in this come at once to me, and I will show you what… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: If you succeed in this come at once to me, and I will show you what else is necessary in order to bring about his complete destruction.” Who acts: you, this, I, Ogre. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., with its depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 89

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If you succeed in this come at once to me, and I will show you what else is necessary in order to bring about his complete destruction.”

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**Who acts:** you, this, I, Ogre · **What happens:** succeed, come, show, be, bring, destroy · **To what, where:** me, you · **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 (you, this, I, 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:pg75000:17:89
# text = If you succeed in this come at once to me, and I will show you what else is necessary in order to bring about his complete destruction.”
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeed	succeed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
16	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	15	iobj	_	_
17	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
18	else	else	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	ccomp	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	24	mark	_	_
22	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	fixed	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
25	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | present | this |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **show** | future | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; necessary *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | about Ogre's complete destruction | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **destroy** |  | Ogre |  |  |  |  |  | nom destruction «act transitive»: poss=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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