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title: The Hare made straight for the ruined wall, and entering the breach… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hare made straight for the ruined wall, and entering the breach in the wall at the large end he emerged safely at the other side by the smaller recess, which was just large enough for him to pass through. Who acts: Hare, smaller recess. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 41

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The Hare made straight for the ruined wall, and entering the breach in the wall at the large end he emerged safely at the other side by the smaller recess, which was just large enough for him to pass through.

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**Who acts:** Hare, smaller recess · **What happens:** make, ruin, enter, emerge, be, pass through · **To what, where:** breach, wall, large end, other side

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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, smaller recess), 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:pg75000:10:41
# text = The Hare made straight for the ruined wall, and entering the breach in the wall at the large end he emerged safely at the other side by the smaller recess, which was just large enough for him to pass through.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	ruined	ruin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	breach	breach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
23	safely	safely	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	smaller	small	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	recess	recess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	just	just	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
37	enough	enough	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
42	through	through	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Hare |  |  |  |  | for the ruined wall; straight *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for wall=Asset |
| 2 | **ruin** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | gerund | the Hare *not said here* | the breach |  | the wall | at the large end | by the smaller recess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme breach=Destination |
| 4 | **emerge** | past | Hare | the large end *not said here* |  | the other side |  | safely *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location end=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the smaller recess |  |  |  |  | enough, large *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **pass through** | to-infinitive | Hare |  |  |  |  | through *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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