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title: What foolish creatures they are to have got themselves into so much… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: What foolish creatures they are to have got themselves into so much trouble after I had freed them from all their difficulties. Who acts: foolish creatures, 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 i
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 55

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What foolish creatures they are to have got themselves into so much trouble after I had freed them from all their difficulties.

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**Who acts:** foolish creatures, I · **What happens:** get, free · **To what, where:** creatures, much trouble, difficulties

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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 (foolish creatures, 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:pg75000:12:55
# text = What foolish creatures they are to have got themselves into so much trouble after I had freed them from all their difficulties.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	got	get	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	acl:relcl	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	so	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	difficulties	difficulty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | present · perfect | foolish creatures | creatures *= creature* |  | much trouble |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus |
| 2 | **free** | past · perfect | I | creatures *= creature* |  | creatures's difficulties |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer they=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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