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title: On hearing this the Wolf dashed out of his den, and seizing hold of… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: On hearing this the Wolf dashed out of his den, and seizing hold of the poor Sheep he quickly slew her. Who acts: Wolf. 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
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 31

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On hearing this the Wolf dashed out of his den, and seizing hold of the poor Sheep he quickly slew her.

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**Who acts:** Wolf · **What happens:** hear, dash, seize, slay, hold · **To what, where:** this, den, hold, distance, poor Sheep

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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), 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:pg75000:12:31
# text = On hearing this the Wolf dashed out of his den, and seizing hold of the poor Sheep he quickly slew her.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	den	den	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus |
| 2 | **dash** | past | the Wolf |  |  | Wolf's den |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out den=Trajectory |
| 3 | **seize** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* | hold of the poor Sheep |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme |
| 4 | **slay** | past | Wolf | distance |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient |
| 5 | **hold** |  |  | the poor Sheep |  |  |  |  | nom hold «act 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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