Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 64

When he gives you these orders, then, you must not disobey, but you must tell the Ogre that it is so dark in the kitchen that you cannot see your way clearly, and you must ask him to precede you.

Who acts: back, you, thing · What happens: give, not disobey, tell, be, not see, ask · To what, where: orders, you, Ogre, kitchen, back · 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 (back, you, thing), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 gives	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gives	nsubj
3	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 disobey	advcl
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 gives	iobj
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 orders	det
6	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gives	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 gives	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 disobey	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 then	punct
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 disobey	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 disobey	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 disobey	advmod
13	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 tell	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 tell	cc
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 tell	nsubj
17	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 tell	aux
18	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 disobey	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Ogre	det
20	Ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tell	obj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 dark	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 dark	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 dark	cop
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 dark	advmod
25	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tell	ccomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 kitchen	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 kitchen	det
28	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 dark	obl
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 see	obj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 see	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 see	aux
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 see	advmod
33	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 kitchen	acl:relcl
34	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 way	nmod:poss
35	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 see	obj
36	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	33 see	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ask	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 ask	cc
39	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 ask	nsubj
40	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 ask	aux
41	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 disobey	conj
42	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ask	obj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 precede	mark
44	precede	precede	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 ask	xcomp
45	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	44 precede	obj
46	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 disobey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	back	this orders	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient order=Theme
2	not disobey	must	you				then		tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	must	you	the Ogre					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ogre=Recipient
4	is	present	thing			the kitchen		dark property	tree rules
5	not see	can	you	the kitchen				your way obj; clearly property	tree rules
6	ask speech: ask	must	you		back				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	precede not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	you					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme you=Co-Theme

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 64