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title: So saying, the Hare produced his sheet of paper, and, taking his pen… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, the Hare produced his sheet of paper, and, taking his pen in his hand, he wrote down the figure “1” very large. Who acts: Hare, India. 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 an
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 38

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So saying, the Hare produced his sheet of paper, and, taking his pen in his hand, he wrote down the figure “1” very large.

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**Who acts:** Hare, India · **What happens:** say, produce, take, write down · **To what, where:** sheet, pen, hand, figure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hare, India), 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:pg75000:11:38
# text = So saying, the Hare produced his sheet of paper, and, taking his pen in his hand, he wrote down the figure “1” very large.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	paper	paper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	pen	pen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	wrote	write	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	1	1	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	27	punct	_	_
29	very	very	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | the Hare *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **produce** | past | the Hare | India's sheet of paper |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheet=Result |
| 3 | **take** | gerund | the Hare *not said here* | India's pen |  | India's hand |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pen=Value in hand=Location |
| 4 | **write down** | past | India | the figure |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=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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