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title: “I will gladly do what I can,” replied the King, “to safeguard you a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I will gladly do what I can,” replied the King, “to safeguard you against these dangers if you will tell me how to proceed.” 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 o
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 39

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“I will gladly do what I can,” replied the King, “to safeguard you against these dangers if you will tell me how to proceed.”

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**Who acts:** King, you · **What happens:** do, reply, safeguard, tell, proceed · **To what, where:** you, King · **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:pg75000:20:39
# text = “I will gladly do what I can,” replied the King, “to safeguard you against these dangers if you will tell me how to proceed.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	safeguard	safeguard	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	dangers	danger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	iobj	_	_
27	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	29	advmod	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | future | the King *= king* |  |  |  |  | what *obj*; gladly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **safeguard** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* |  | you |  |  | against this dangers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary against danger=Theme |
| 4 | **tell** *speech: assert* *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you |  | the King *= king* |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **proceed** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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