Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 59

I, however, have discovered where it is, and I will reveal the secret to you later, but first I will tell you the method by which you may destroy the Ogre’s body.

Who acts: I, mascot, you · What happens: discover, be, reveal, tell, destroy · To what, where: secret, you, method, body · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, mascot, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 discovered	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 I	punct
3	however	however	ADV	_	6 discovered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 however	punct
5	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 discovered	aux
6	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	9 is	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 is	nsubj
9	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 discovered	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 reveal	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 reveal	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 reveal	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 reveal	aux
14	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 discovered	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 secret	det
16	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 reveal	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 reveal	obl
19	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 reveal	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tell	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 tell	cc
22	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 tell	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 tell	nsubj
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 tell	aux
25	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 reveal	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 tell	iobj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 method	det
28	method	method	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 tell	obj
29	by	by	ADP	_	30 which	case
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 destroy	obl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 destroy	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 destroy	aux
33	destroy	destroy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 method	acl:relcl
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 Ogre	det
35	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 body	nmod:poss
36	’s	's	PART	_	35 Ogre	case
37	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 destroy	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	discover	present · perfect	I			however property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present	mascot				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	reveal	future	I	the secret	you	late property	vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent secret=Topic to you=Recipient
4	tell speech: assert	future	I	the method	you	first property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient method=Topic
5	destroy	may	you	the Ogre's body		by the method	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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 59

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 59