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title: As soon as the Goat caught sight of the Wolf coming along in the dis… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as the Goat caught sight of the Wolf coming along in the distance he guessed what had happened, and fled as fast as he could across the hills with the Wolf after him. Who acts: Goat, Wolf. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 34

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As soon as the Goat caught sight of the Wolf coming along in the distance he guessed what had happened, and fled as fast as he could across the hills with the Wolf after him.

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**Who acts:** Goat, Wolf · **What happens:** catch, come along, guess, happen, flee, sight · **To what, where:** sight, distance, hills, Wolf · **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, 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:pg75000:12:34
# text = As soon as the Goat caught sight of the Wolf coming along in the distance he guessed what had happened, and fled as fast as he could across the hills with the Wolf after him.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	along	along	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	guessed	guess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	happened	happen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
24	as	as	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
26	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	advcl	_	_
29	across	across	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	after	after	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | the Goat | sight of the Wolf |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme |
| 2 | **come along** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the distance; along *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location |
| 3 | **guess** | past | Goat | the distance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **happen** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **flee** | past | the Goat *not said here* |  |  | the hills with the Wolf | after Wolf | fast *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme across hill=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **sight** |  |  | the Wolf |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition 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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