Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 52

You have fulfilled all of his tasks without allowing yourself to be terrified by the strange portents which you have observed, but on his return he will no doubt set you further and more disagreeable duties to perform.

Who acts: You, strange portents, doubt, process · What happens: fulfil, allow, terrify, observe, set, perform · To what, where: all, yourself, strange portents, you, return

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, strange portents, doubt, process), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 fulfilled	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fulfilled	aux
3	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 fulfilled	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tasks	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tasks	nmod:poss
7	tasks	task	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 all	nmod
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 allowing	mark
9	allowing	allow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 fulfilled	advcl
10	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 allowing	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 terrified	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 terrified	aux:pass
13	terrified	terrify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 allowing	advcl
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 portents	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 portents	det
16	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 portents	amod
17	portents	portent	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 terrified	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 observed	nsubj:pass
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 observed	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 observed	aux
21	observed	observe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 portents	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 set	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 set	cc
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 return	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 return	nmod:poss
26	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	obl
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 will	nsubj
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 return	acl:relcl
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 doubt	det
30	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 set	nsubj
31	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fulfilled	parataxis
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 set	obj
33	further	further	ADV	_	31 set	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 duties	cc
35	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 duties	amod
36	disagreeable	disagreeable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 duties	amod
37	duties	duty	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 set	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 perform	mark
39	perform	perform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 duties	acl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fulfilled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fulfil	present · perfect	You	all of process's tasks			tree rules
2	allow	gerund	You not said here	yourself			vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary
3	terrify	to-infinitive · passive	the strange portents				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	observe	present · perfect · passive		the strange portents		you nsubj	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
5	set	past	no doubt	you	process's return	more disagreeable duties conj; further property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme on return=Destination
6	perform	to-infinitive	no doubt not said here				vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	task		process				nom task «act transitive»: poss=agent
8	return		process				nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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 52

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 52