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title: “Very good,” replied the Lion, “you must now act as follows: hold th… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Very good,” replied the Lion, “you must now act as follows: hold the bucket under my mouth, and I will vomit gold into it. Who acts: Lion, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 24

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“Very good,” replied the Lion, “you must now act as follows: hold the bucket under my mouth, and I will vomit gold into it.

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**Who acts:** Lion, you · **What happens:** reply, act, follow, hold, vomit · **To what, where:** bucket, mouth, gold · **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 Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, you), 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:pg75000:18:24
# text = “Very good,” replied the Lion, “you must now act as follows: hold the bucket under my mouth, and I will vomit gold into it.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	act	act	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	hold	hold	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	under	under	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	vomit	vomit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **act** *in a quote* | must | you |  |  |  | now |  | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | the bucket |  | my mouth |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bucket=Theme under mouth=Location |
| 5 | **vomit** *in a quote* | future | the Lion *= lion* | gold |  | bucket |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme |

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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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