Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 69

I will lie down on the couch, and you must place the flower behind my ear just as it was before; and when I fall into a trance you must at once go out into the courtyard and wait the return of the Ogre, and mind you are careful not to let him know that you have been inside the castle.”

Who acts: I, you, flower, mind, Ogre · What happens: lie down, place, be, fall, go out, wait · To what, where: couch, ear, trance, courtyard, return, Ogre · 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, you, flower, mind), 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	3 lie	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 lie	aux
3	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 couch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 couch	det
7	couch	couch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 place	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 place	cc
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 place	nsubj
11	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 place	aux
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lie	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 flower	det
14	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	conj
15	behind	behind	ADP	_	17 ear	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 ear	nmod:poss
17	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 place	nmod
18	just	just	ADV	_	22 before	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 before	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 before	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 before	cop
22	before	before	ADV	_	3 lie	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 go	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 go	cc
25	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 fall	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 fall	nsubj
27	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 go	advcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 trance	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 trance	det
30	trance	trance	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fall	obl
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 go	nsubj
32	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 go	aux
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 go	obl
35	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	parataxis
36	out	out	ADV	_	35 go	advmod
37	into	into	ADP	_	39 courtyard	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 courtyard	det
39	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 go	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 wait	cc
41	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 lie	conj
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 return	det
43	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 wait	obj
44	of	of	ADP	_	46 Ogre	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Ogre	det
46	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 return	nmod
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 careful	punct
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 careful	cc
49	mind	mind	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 careful	nsubj
50	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 careful	nsubj
51	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	52 careful	cop
52	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lie	parataxis
53	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 let	advmod
54	to	to	PART	_	55 let	mark
55	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 careful	advcl
56	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 let	obj
57	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	55 let	xcomp
58	that	that	SCONJ	_	64 castle	mark
59	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	64 castle	nsubj
60	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	64 castle	aux
61	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	64 castle	cop
62	inside	inside	ADP	_	64 castle	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 castle	det
64	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 know	ccomp
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct
66	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie down	future	I		the couch	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on couch=Location
2	place	must	you		my ear	the flower conj	tree rules
3	is	past	flower			before property	tree rules
4	fall	present	I			into a trance result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into trance=Result
5	go out	must	you		the courtyard	out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	wait	infinitive	I not said here	the return of the Ogre			tree rules
7	is	present	mind			you nsubj; careful property	tree rules
8	not let	to-infinitive	mind not said here	Ogre			tree rules
9	know	infinitive	Ogre not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
10	is	present · perfect	you		the castle		tree rules
11	return		the Ogre				nom return «communication intransitive»: of=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 69