Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 89

If you succeed in this come at once to me, and I will show you what else is necessary in order to bring about his complete destruction.”

Who acts: you, this, I, Ogre · What happens: succeed, come, show, be, bring, destroy · To what, where: me, you · 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 (you, this, I, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 succeed	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 succeed	nsubj
3	succeed	succeed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 show	advcl
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 come	mark
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 succeed	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 come	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 come	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 succeed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 show	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 show	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 show	aux
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 show	iobj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 necessary	nsubj
18	else	else	ADV	_	17 what	advmod
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 necessary	cop
20	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 show	ccomp
21	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	24 bring	mark
22	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 in	fixed
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bring	mark
24	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 necessary	advcl
25	about	about	ADP	_	28 destruction	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 destruction	nmod:poss
27	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 destruction	amod
28	destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bring	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	succeed a condition, not said to happen	present	you			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come	present	this	me		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location
3	show	future	I	you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
4	is	present			what nsubj; necessary property	tree rules
5	bring	to-infinitive			about Ogre's complete destruction	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
6	destroy		Ogre			nom destruction «act 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 89

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 89