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title: “I would with pleasure,” answered the Hare, “but really, the fact is… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “I would with pleasure,” answered the Hare, “but really, the fact is, I can’t recollect a single song at this moment. Who acts: pleasure, fact. 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 tr
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 84

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“I would with pleasure,” answered the Hare, “but really, the fact is, I can’t recollect a single song at this moment.

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**Who acts:** pleasure, fact · **What happens:** answer, not be · **To what, where:** Hare · **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 (pleasure, fact), 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:pg75000:12:84
# text = “I would with pleasure,” answered the Hare, “but really, the fact is, I can’t recollect a single song at this moment.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
14	really	really	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:outer	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	recollect	recollect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | pleasure  I |  | the Hare |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hare=Eventuality |
| 2 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | can · present | the fact |  |  |  | moment | I *nsubj*; a single song *obj*; recollect *property* | tree rules |

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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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