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title: So the Hare explained to him that the best plan would be for him to… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Hare explained to him that the best plan would be for him to slip his head through the handle of the jar, in which case it would be quite easy for him to drag the jar along with him. Who acts: Hare, best plan. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, T
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 73

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So the Hare explained to him that the best plan would be for him to slip his head through the handle of the jar, in which case it would be quite easy for him to drag the jar along with him.

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**Who acts:** Hare, best plan · **What happens:** explain, be, drag · **To what, where:** Fox, handle, case, jar

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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 (Hare, best plan), 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:pg75000:12:73
# text = So the Hare explained to him that the best plan would be for him to slip his head through the handle of the jar, in which case it would be quite easy for him to drag the jar along with him.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	explained	explain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:outer	_	_
11	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
12	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	cop	_	_
13	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	slip	slip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	through	through	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	handle	handle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	28	det	_	_
28	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	expl	_	_
30	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
31	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	cop	_	_
32	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	_
34	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
36	to	to	PART	TO	_	37	mark	_	_
37	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	ccomp	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	jar	jar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	_
40	along	along	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **explain** *speech: assert* | past | the Hare |  | Fox |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S\_INF»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** | would | the best plan |  |  | the handle of the jar |  | Hare *nsubj*; Fox's head *obj*; slip *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | would | the best plan *not said here* |  |  | which case |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **drag** | to-infinitive | Hare | the jar |  |  |  | along Fox | 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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