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title: So when the Goat died shortly after the Fox stripped off his skin, a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So when the Goat died shortly after the Fox stripped off his skin, and set off with it to hand it over to the Goat’s young ones. 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 t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 47

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So when the Goat died shortly after the Fox stripped off his skin, and set off with it to hand it over to the Goat’s young ones.

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**Who acts:** Goat · **What happens:** die, strip off, set off, hand over · **To what, where:** skin, young ones

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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:pg75000:12:47
# text = So when the Goat died shortly after the Fox stripped off his skin, and set off with it to hand it over to the Goat’s young ones.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
6	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	stripped	strip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	off	off	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	set	set	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	hand	hand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | the Goat |  |  |  | after the Fox | shortly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **strip off** | past |  | Fox's skin |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
| 3 | **set off** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with skin | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hand over** | to-infinitive |  | skin | the Goat's young ones |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Destination |

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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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