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title: “What right,” said he, “has an ugly, defenceless creature like you t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “What right,” said he, “has an ugly, defenceless creature like you to possess such a lovely house? Who acts: you. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 69

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“What right,” said he, “has an ugly, defenceless creature like you to possess such a lovely house?

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** say, have, possess · **To what, where:** ugly defenceless creature, lovely house · **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 Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg75000:3:69
# text = “What right,” said he, “has an ugly, defenceless creature like you to possess such a lovely house?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
3	right	right	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
11	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	ugly	ugly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	defenceless	defenceless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	creature	creature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	like	like	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	possess	possess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
20	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	23	det:predet	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 |  |  |  |  |  | What *nsubj:outer*; strength *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a ugly defenceless creature |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Patient |
| 3 | **possess** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you | such lovely house |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot house=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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