--- title: “Very well,” said the Lion, “place your bucket under my mouth and I… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “Very well,” said the Lion, “place your bucket under my mouth and I will vomit gold into it; but as soon as the bucket is nearly full you must inform me of the fact, as on no account must a single piece of gold fall to the ground. Who acts: Lion, bucket, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, bucket, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:18:42 # text = “Very well,” said the Lion, “place your bucket under my mouth and I will vomit gold into it; but as soon as the bucket is nearly full you must inform me of the fact, as on no account must a single piece of gold fall to the ground. 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Very very ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 6 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ 6 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|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 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 “ " PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 12 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 under under ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 19 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 20 vomit vomit VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 21 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 22 into into ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 24 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 25 but but CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 26 as as ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 27 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 36 advmod _ _ 28 as as SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 bucket bucket NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 31 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 cop _ _ 32 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 33 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 advcl _ _ 34 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 35 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 36 inform inform VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 conj _ _ 37 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 36 iobj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 fact fact NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 42 as as ADP IN ExtPos=ADP 49 case _ _ 43 on on ADP IN _ 42 fixed _ _ 44 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 45 det _ _ 45 account account NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 46 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 49 aux _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 single single ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 piece piece NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 conj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 compound _ _ 52 fall fall NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ _ 53 to to ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Lion | place your bucket under my mouth | | | | well *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **vomit** *in a quote* | future | the Lion *= lion* | gold | | gold | | | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | | 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | the bucket | | | | | full, nearly *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **inform** *speech: other* *in a quote* | must | you | | the Lion *= lion* | | | of the fact; a single piece no account of gold fall to the ground *conj*; soon *property* | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient of fact=Topic | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/18/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/18/43/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Stone Lion.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/18/)