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title: And the Wolf cowered into the furthest recesses of his den trembling… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: And the Wolf cowered into the furthest recesses of his den trembling with fear. Who acts: Wolf, den. 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 11

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And the Wolf cowered into the furthest recesses of his den trembling with fear.

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**Who acts:** Wolf, den · **What happens:** cower, tremble, recess · **To what, where:** furthest recesses, den

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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 (Wolf, den), 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:pg75000:12:11
# text = And the Wolf cowered into the furthest recesses of his den trembling with fear.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	cowered	cower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	into	into	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	furthest	furth	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	recesses	recess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cower** | past | the Wolf |  |  | the furthest recesses of Wolf's den |  |  | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **tremble** | gerund | Wolf's den *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fear | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **recess** |  |  | Wolf's den |  |  |  |  | nom recess «state 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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