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title: “But,” said the King, “if I were to give you a barn full of grain ho… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “But,” said the King, “if I were to give you a barn full of grain how would you carry it away?” Who acts: King, you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 16

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“But,” said the King, “if I were to give you a barn full of grain how would you carry it away?”

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**Who acts:** King, you · **What happens:** say, give, carry away · **To what, where:** barn, you, thread · **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 Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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:pg75000:20:16
# text = “But,” said the King, “if I were to give you a barn full of grain how would you carry it away?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	advcl	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	iobj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	barn	barn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
22	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	away	away	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **give** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | past | the King *= king* | a barn | you |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient barn=Theme |
| 3 | **carry away** *in a quote* | would | you | thread |  |  |  | away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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