--- title: When the Sheep found herself left alone at the mouth of the Wolf’s d… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: When the Sheep found herself left alone at the mouth of the Wolf’s den, her natural timidity asserted itself, and she began to feel very nervous, but in order to keep up appearances she started to rub her horns against a stone, just as the Goat had advised her to do. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep, distance, natural timidity, Goat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:12:23 # text = When the Sheep found herself left alone at the mouth of the Wolf’s den, her natural timidity asserted itself, and she began to feel very nervous, but in order to keep up appearances she started to rub her horns against a stone, just as the Goat had advised her to do. 1 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sheep sheep NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 5 herself herself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 4 obj _ _ 6 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 xcomp _ _ 7 alone alone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 8 at at ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 of of ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 Wolf Wolf PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 den den NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 natural natural ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 timidity timidity NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 asserted assert VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 21 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 24 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 began begin VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 to to PART TO _ 27 mark _ _ 27 feel feel VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 25 xcomp _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 nervous nervous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 31 but but CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 32 in in SCONJ IN ExtPos=SCONJ 35 mark _ _ 33 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 fixed _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 keep keep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 36 up up ADP RP _ 35 compound:prt _ _ 37 appearances appearance NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 started start VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 41 mark _ _ 41 rub rub VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 39 xcomp _ _ 42 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 44 against against ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 stone stone NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 53 punct _ _ 48 just just ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 49 as as SCONJ IN _ 53 mark _ _ 50 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 Goat Goat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 53 nsubj:pass _ _ 52 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 53 aux _ _ 53 advised advise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 parataxis _ _ 54 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 53 obj _ _ 55 to to PART TO _ 56 mark _ _ 56 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 53 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 57 . . PUNCT . _ 20 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | the Sheep | distance | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent herself=Attribute clause=Theme | | 2 | **leave** | participle | distance *not said here* | | | the mouth of the Wolf's den | | alone *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent at mouth=Location | | 3 | **assert** | past | distance's natural timidity | timidity | | | | | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | | 4 | **begin** | past | distance | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 5 | **feel** | to-infinitive | distance *not said here* | | | | | nervous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 6 | **keep up** | to-infinitive | distance's natural timidity *not said here* | appearances | | | | | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent appearance=Theme | | 7 | **start** | past | distance | appearances *not said here* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **rub** | to-infinitive | distance *not said here* | distance's horns | | a stone | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme against stone=Destination | | 9 | **advise** *speech: other* | past · perfect · passive | | the Goat | | | | distance *obj* | tree rules | | 10 | **do** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Goat *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/12/22/) - next →: [sentence 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/12/24/) - ↑ back to [The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/12/)