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title: The Fox and the Hare had no difficulty in making up a bundle of chee… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Fox and the Hare had no difficulty in making up a bundle of cheese and cold fowl, but the Wolf found that it would be very difficult for him to carry off the jar of wine. Who acts: Fox, difficulty, Wolf. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story 
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 72

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The Fox and the Hare had no difficulty in making up a bundle of cheese and cold fowl, but the Wolf found that it would be very difficult for him to carry off the jar of wine.

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**Who acts:** Fox, difficulty, Wolf · **What happens:** have, make up, find, be, carry off · **To what, where:** difficulty, bundle, jar · **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 (Fox, difficulty, 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:pg75000:12:72
# text = The Fox and the Hare had no difficulty in making up a bundle of cheese and cold fowl, but the Wolf found that it would be very difficult for him to carry off the jar of wine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	making	make	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	bundle	bundle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fowl	fowl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	expl	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
27	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	cop	_	_
28	very	very	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	difficult	difficult	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	_
30	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	33	mark	_	_
33	carry	carry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	advcl	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **have** | past | the Fox and the Hare | no difficulty |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Patient |
| 2 | **make up** | gerund | no difficulty *not said here* | a bundle of cheese and cold fowl |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme bundle=Pivot |
| 3 | **find** | past | the Wolf |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is** | would |  |  |  |  |  | difficult *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **carry off** | to-infinitive | Fox | the jar of wine |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=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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