Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 101

What you must do now, therefore, is as follows: you must descend into the vaults below the castle, and having traversed nine dark subterranean chambers, you will come to a blank stone wall.

Who acts: you · What happens: do, be, descend, traverse, come · To what, where: vaults, nine dark subterranean chambers, blank stone wall

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. 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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 do	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 follows	punct
7	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	11 follows	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 therefore	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 follows	cop
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 follows	mark
11	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 do	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 descend	punct
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 descend	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 descend	aux
15	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 follows	advcl
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 vaults	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 vaults	det
18	vaults	vault	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 descend	obl
19	below	below	ADP	_	21 castle	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 castle	det
21	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 vaults	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 traversed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 traversed	cc
24	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 traversed	aux
25	traversed	traverse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 descend	conj
26	nine	nine	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 chambers	nummod
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 chambers	amod
28	subterranean	subterranean	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 chambers	compound
29	chambers	chamber	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 traversed	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 come	punct
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 come	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 come	aux
33	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 traversed	conj
34	to	to	ADP	_	38 wall	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 wall	det
36	blank	blank	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 wall	amod
37	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 wall	compound
38	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 come	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	must	you			now	What obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	is	present	you not said here				follow, therefore property	tree rules
3	descend	must	you		the vaults below the castle			vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into vault=Location
4	traverse	gerund · perfect	you not said here	nine dark subterranean chambers				vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Co-Theme
5	come	future	you		a blank stone wall			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wall=Initial_Location

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.

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 101

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 101