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title: But be careful on no account to leave the room before morning, other… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: But be careful on no account to leave the room before morning, otherwise you are sure to be detected by the dogs which roam about the house by night.” Who acts: you, dogs. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., with its dep
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 43

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But be careful on no account to leave the room before morning, otherwise you are sure to be detected by the dogs which roam about the house by night.”

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**Who acts:** you, dogs · **What happens:** be, leave, detect, roam · **To what, where:** account, room

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, dogs), 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:pg75000:19:43
# text = But be careful on no account to leave the room before morning, otherwise you are sure to be detected by the dogs which roam about the house by night.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	cop	_	_
3	careful	careful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	detected	detect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	ccomp	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dogs	dog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	about	about	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  | no account |  | careful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the room |  |  | morning |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | you |  |  |  |  | otherwise, sure *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **detect** | to-infinitive · passive | the dogs |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **roam** | present | the dogs |  |  |  | night | about the house | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about house=Trajectory |

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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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