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title: “Dear me,” replied the Hare, “that no doubt must be the same Goat an… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dear me,” replied the Hare, “that no doubt must be the same Goat and the same Sheep whom I rescued so recently from that very Wolf. Who acts: me, I. 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 depende
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 54

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“Dear me,” replied the Hare, “that no doubt must be the same Goat and the same Sheep whom I rescued so recently from that very Wolf.

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**Who acts:** me, I · **What happens:** reply, be, rescue · **To what, where:** same Goat, 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 (me, I), 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:pg75000:12:54
# text = “Dear me,” replied the Hare, “that no doubt must be the same Goat and the same Sheep whom I rescued so recently from that very Wolf.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
14	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
23	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	obl	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rescued	rescue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	recently	recently	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	obl	_	_
30	very	very	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | me |  |  |  |  | the Hare *nsubj*; whom  no doubt and the same Sheep *obl* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | must |  | the same Goat |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rescue** *in a quote* | past | I | Wolf |  |  |  | recently *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from that=Source |

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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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