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title: “Well, then,” said the Hare, “as we have feasted well and feel happy… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well, then,” said the Hare, “as we have feasted well and feel happy and contented, let’s have a song before starting.” Who acts: Hare, ’s. 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 dependency tree a
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 81

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“Well, then,” said the Hare, “as we have feasted well and feel happy and contented, let’s have a song before starting.”

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**Who acts:** Hare, ’s · **What happens:** say, feast, feel, content, let, have · **To what, where:** we, ’s, song · **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 (Hare, ’s), 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:pg75000:12:81
# text = “Well, then,” said the Hare, “as we have feasted well and feel happy and contented, let’s have a song before starting.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	feasted	feast	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
16	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
19	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	contented	content	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
29	starting	start	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	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 | the Hare |  |  |  | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **feast** *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | we |  |  |  | well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | happy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **content** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | ’s |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **have** *in a quote* | infinitive | ’s *not said here* | a song |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Patient |
| 7 | **start** *in a quote* | gerund | ’s *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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