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title: “Good-morning, Sister Sheep, how is it that you, who are so fat and… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good-morning, Sister Sheep, how is it that you, who are so fat and have so fine a Lamb, are looking so sad this morning?” A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 17

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“Good-morning, Sister Sheep, how is it that you, who are so fat and have so fine a Lamb, are looking so sad this morning?”

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**What happens:** be, have, look · **To what, where:** road, fine Lamb

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75000:11:17
# text = “Good-morning, Sister Sheep, how is it that you, who are so fat and have so fine a Lamb, are looking so sad this morning?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	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	18	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	conj	_	_
12	that	that	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	fat	fat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	looking	look	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	conj	_	_
28	so	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	xcomp	_	_
30	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | road |  |  |  | that you | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present |  |  |  |  | morning | who *nsubj*; fat *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** *in a quote* | present |  | a fine Lamb |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Patient |
| 4 | **look** *in a quote* | present · progressive |  |  |  |  | morning | sad *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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