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title: The young Prince apologised, and explained the circumstances of the… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The young Prince apologised, and explained the circumstances of the case as best he could, whereupon the girl addressed him as follows: Who acts: young Prince, girl. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., with its dependen
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 51

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The young Prince apologised, and explained the circumstances of the case as best he could, whereupon the girl addressed him as follows:

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**Who acts:** young Prince, girl · **What happens:** apologise, explain, address, follow · **To what, where:** circumstances, Prince

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Prince, girl), 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:pg75000:22:51
# text = The young Prince apologised, and explained the circumstances of the case as best he could, whereupon the girl addressed him as follows:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Prince	Prince	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	apologised	apologise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	ccomp	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	follows	follow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apologise** *speech: apologize* | past | the young Prince |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the young Prince *not said here* | the circumstances of the case |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic |
| 3 | **address** | past | the girl |  | Prince |  |  | whereupon *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 4 | **follow** | present | the girl *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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