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title: As soon as they came within earshot of where the Wolf was standing t… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as they came within earshot of where the Wolf was standing the Hare called out in a sharp tone of authority: Who acts: preparations, Wolf. 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 a
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 30

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As soon as they came within earshot of where the Wolf was standing the Hare called out in a sharp tone of authority:

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**Who acts:** preparations, Wolf · **What happens:** come, stand, call out, intonate · **To what, where:** Hare, sharp tone, authority

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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: who acts (preparations, Wolf), 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:pg75000:11:30
# text = As soon as they came within earshot of where the Wolf was standing the Hare called out in a sharp tone of authority:
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	within	within	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	earshot	earshot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	13	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	authority	authority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	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 | **come** | past | preparations *= preparation* |  |  |  |  | within earshot; soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past · progressive | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the Hare |  | a sharp tone of authority |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **intonate** |  |  | authority |  |  |  |  | nom tone «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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