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title: “I am collecting the water to cook you in,” answered the Goat gruffly. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I am collecting the water to cook you in,” answered the Goat gruffly. 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 14

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“I am collecting the water to cook you in,” answered the Goat gruffly.

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**Who acts:** Goat · **What happens:** collect, cook in, answer · **To what, where:** water, 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:pg75000:12:14
# text = “I am collecting the water to cook you in,” answered the Goat gruffly.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	ccomp	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cook	cook	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	gruffly	gruffly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **collect** *in a quote* | present · progressive | the Goat *= goat* | the water |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cook in** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Goat *= goat* *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Goat |  |  |  |  | gruffly *property* | tree rules |

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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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