Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 87

It will not do, however, absolutely to disobey his orders; but you must explain to him that, being a Prince, you have never had to kow-tow to anybody and do not exactly know how to do it, and you must ask him to show you the proper way to proceed.

Who acts: injury, you, Ogre · What happens: not do, disobey, explain, be, not have, not know · To what, where: orders, that, Ogre, Prince, injury, proper way · 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 (injury, you, Ogre), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 do	advmod
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 disobey	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	4 do	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 disobey	punct
8	absolutely	absolutely	ADV	_	10 disobey	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 disobey	mark
10	disobey	disobey	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 orders	nmod:poss
12	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 disobey	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 explain	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 explain	cc
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 explain	nsubj
16	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 explain	aux
17	explain	explain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 disobey	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 explain	obl
20	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 explain	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 Prince	punct
22	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 Prince	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Prince	det
24	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 explain	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 had	punct
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 explain	parataxis
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 tow	case
31	kow	kow	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 tow	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 kow	punct
33	tow	tow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 had	obl
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 anybody	case
35	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 tow	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 know	cc
37	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 know	aux
38	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 know	advmod
39	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	40 know	advmod
40	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	conj
41	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	43 do	advmod
42	to	to	PART	_	43 do	mark
43	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 know	ccomp
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	43 do	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 ask	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 ask	cc
47	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	49 ask	nsubj
48	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 ask	aux
49	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 explain	conj
50	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 ask	obj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 show	mark
52	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 ask	xcomp
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 show	iobj
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 way	det
55	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 way	amod
56	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 show	obj
57	to	to	PART	_	58 proceed	mark
58	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	56 way	acl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 disobey	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	not do	future	injury			however property	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	disobey	to-infinitive		Ogre's orders		absolutely property	tree rules
3	explain speech: assert	must	you	that	Ogre		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to he=Recipient
4	is a	gerund		a Prince			tree rules
5	not have	present · perfect	you			to kow tow to anybody	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	not know	infinitive · do-support	you not said here			exactly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	do	to-infinitive		injury			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
8	ask speech: ask	must	you		Ogre		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
9	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the proper way	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient way=Topic
10	proceed	to-infinitive	you not said here	the proper way not said here			vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent
11	order		Ogre				nom order «communication transitive»: 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 87

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 87