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title: “Sharpening a knife to kill you with,” replied the Goat. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Sharpening a knife to kill you with,” replied the Goat. Who acts: Goat. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 10

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“Sharpening a knife to kill you with,” replied the Goat.

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**Who acts:** Goat · **What happens:** sharpen, kill, reply · **To what, where:** knife, you · **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 Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat), 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:pg75000:12:10
# text = “Sharpening a knife to kill you with,” replied the Goat.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sharpening	sharpen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	ccomp	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knife	knife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	kill	kill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
11	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sharpen** *in a quote* | gerund |  | a knife |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent knife=Patient |
| 2 | **kill** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Goat |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

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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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