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title: When he was tired of this he went off home very pleased with himself… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was tired of this he went off home very pleased with himself, and the Lioness, being unable to free herself from the trap she was in, shortly afterwards starved to death. Who acts: Hare, Lioness. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 45

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When he was tired of this he went off home very pleased with himself, and the Lioness, being unable to free herself from the trap she was in, shortly afterwards starved to death.

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**Who acts:** Hare, Lioness · **What happens:** be, go off, starve · **To what, where:** trap, Lioness

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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, 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:pg75000:10:45
# text = When he was tired of this he went off home very pleased with himself, and the Lioness, being unable to free herself from the trap she was in, shortly afterwards starved to death.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	home	home	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Lioness	lioness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	21	obl	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	trap	trap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	in	in	ADV	RB	_	27	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
33	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
34	starved	starve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Hare |  |  |  |  | the Lioness *conj*; tired *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go off** | past | Hare |  |  |  |  | of this; home, pleased *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | the trap |  | Lioness *obl*; free, unable *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | Lioness | the trap *not said here* |  |  |  | in *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **starve** | participle |  | the Lioness *not said here* |  |  |  | to death; afterwards, shortly *property* | 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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