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title: Once in the tank he was unable to get out, for its sides were built… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Once in the tank he was unable to get out, for its sides were built of masonry, and it was impossible for him to climb them. Who acts: Hare. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 28

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Once in the tank he was unable to get out, for its sides were built of masonry, and it was impossible for him to climb them.

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**Who acts:** Hare · **What happens:** be, get out, build, climb · **To what, where:** sides, observations

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:10:28
# text = Once in the tank he was unable to get out, for its sides were built of masonry, and it was impossible for him to climb them.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	7	advmod	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tank	tank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	masonry	masonry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	expl	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	impossible	impossible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	climb	climb	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	csubj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hare |  |  |  |  | once, unable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get out** | to-infinitive | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **build** | past · passive |  | tank's sides |  |  |  | of masonry | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 4 | **is** | past | Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Hare; impossible *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **climb** | to-infinitive |  | observations *= observation* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=Theme |

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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.

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**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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