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title: The Lioness took no notice of the Hare, except to growl at him in an… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lioness took no notice of the Hare, except to growl at him in an angry manner, and to lash her sides with her tail. Who acts: Lioness. 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 c
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 36

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The Lioness took no notice of the Hare, except to growl at him in an angry manner, and to lash her sides with her tail.

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**Who acts:** Lioness · **What happens:** take, growl, lash, notice · **To what, where:** notice, angry manner, sides, Hare

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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 (Lioness), 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:pg75000:10:36
# text = The Lioness took no notice of the Hare, except to growl at him in an angry manner, and to lash her sides with her tail.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	except	except	ADP	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	growl	growl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	lash	lash	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Lioness | no notice of the Hare |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **growl** | to-infinitive | the Lioness *not said here* |  |  | a angry manner |  | at Hare | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **lash** | to-infinitive |  | Lioness's sides |  |  |  | with Lioness's tail | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent side=Destination with tail=Theme |
| 4 | **notice** |  |  | the Hare |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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