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title: “Well now, Brother Fox and Brother Wolf,” said the Hare in a genial… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well now, Brother Fox and Brother Wolf,” said the Hare in a genial tone of voice, “it is nearly time for us to be off. Who acts: Brother Fox, voice. 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 75

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“Well now, Brother Fox and Brother Wolf,” said the Hare in a genial tone of voice, “it is nearly time for us to be off.

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**Who acts:** Brother Fox, voice · **What happens:** say, be, intonate · **To what, where:** genial tone, time, voice · **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 (Brother Fox, voice), 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:pg75000:12:75
# text = “Well now, Brother Fox and Brother Wolf,” said the Hare in a genial tone of voice, “it is nearly time for us to be off.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Brother	brother	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	genial	genial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
25	nearly	nearly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	26	nmod	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	acl	_	_
31	off	off	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Brother Fox and Brother |  |  | a genial tone of voice and time |  | the Hare *nsubj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in tone=Manner |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | voice | time |  |  |  | for us; nearly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **intonate** |  |  | voice |  |  |  |  | nom tone «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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