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title: “Good-morning, Aunt Lioness,” said the Hare, going up cautiously tow… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good-morning, Aunt Lioness,” said the Hare, going up cautiously towards her; “what is the matter with you this morning? 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 cla
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 34

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“Good-morning, Aunt Lioness,” said the Hare, going up cautiously towards her; “what is the matter with you this morning?

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**Who acts:** Hare · **What happens:** say, go up, be · **To what, where:** matter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg75000:10:34
# text = “Good-morning, Aunt Lioness,” said the Hare, going up cautiously towards her; “what is the matter with you this morning?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Aunt	aunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	cautiously	cautiously	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	_
27	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Hare |  |  |  | morning |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go up** | gerund | the Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards Lioness; cautiously *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | the matter |  |  |  | with you; what *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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