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title: After sitting for a short while the Goat began rubbing his horns on… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: After sitting for a short while the Goat began rubbing his horns on a stone, and the Wolf hearing the grating sound squeaked out very humbly: Who acts: Goat, 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., wi
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 7

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After sitting for a short while the Goat began rubbing his horns on a stone, and the Wolf hearing the grating sound squeaked out very humbly:

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**Who acts:** Goat, Wolf · **What happens:** sit, begin, rub, hear, squeak out · **To what, where:** horns, stone, grating sound, Wolf

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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:pg75000:12:7
# text = After sitting for a short while the Goat began rubbing his horns on a stone, and the Wolf hearing the grating sound squeaked out very humbly:
1	After	after	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	obl	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Goat	Goat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	rubbing	rub	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	grating	grating	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	squeaked	squeak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	humbly	humbly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | gerund | the Goat *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a short | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **begin** | past | the Goat |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **rub** | gerund | the Goat *not said here* | Goat's horns |  | a stone |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horn=Theme on stone=Destination |
| 4 | **hear** | gerund | the Wolf *not said here* | the grating sound |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 5 | **squeak out** | participle · passive |  | the Wolf |  |  |  | humbly *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |

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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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