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title: This impudence so enraged the Lioness that she sprang towards the Ha… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: This impudence so enraged the Lioness that she sprang towards the Hare and endeavoured to seize him; but he eluded her and galloped off down the hill hotly pursued by the angry beast. Who acts: impudence, Hare. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Har
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 40

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This impudence so enraged the Lioness that she sprang towards the Hare and endeavoured to seize him; but he eluded her and galloped off down the hill hotly pursued by the angry beast.

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**Who acts:** impudence, Hare · **What happens:** enrage, spring, endeavour, seize, elude, gallop off · **To what, where:** Lioness, Hare, impudence, hill

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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 (impudence, 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:pg75000:10:40
# text = This impudence so enraged the Lioness that she sprang towards the Hare and endeavoured to seize him; but he eluded her and galloped off down the hill hotly pursued by the angry beast.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	impudence	impudence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	sprang	spring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	eluded	elude	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	off	off	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	down	down	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
29	hotly	hotly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	acl	_	_
31	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	beast	beast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enrage** | past | this impudence | the Lioness |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus lioness=Experiencer |
| 2 | **spring** | past | impudence |  |  |  |  | towards the Hare | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards hare=Destination |
| 3 | **endeavour** | past | impudence *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seize** | to-infinitive | impudence *not said here* | Hare |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **elude** | past | Hare | impudence |  |  |  |  | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent she=Location |
| 6 | **gallop off** | past | Hare *not said here* |  |  | the hill |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down hill=Trajectory |
| 7 | **pursue** | participle |  | the hill *not said here* |  |  |  | by the angry beast; hotly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by beast=Trajectory |

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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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