---
title: “Where are you running to, Uncle Tiger?” asked the Baboon. — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Where are you running to, Uncle Tiger?” asked the Baboon. Who acts: you, Baboon. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Folk tales from Tibet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/) / [The Jackals and the Tiger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/) / 21

# Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
“Where are you running to, Uncle Tiger?” asked the Baboon.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** you, Baboon · **What happens:** run, ask · **To what, where:** Uncle Tiger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Baboon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:14:21
# text = “Where are you running to, Uncle Tiger?” asked the Baboon.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	5	advmod	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	ccomp	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
12	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Baboon	Baboon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** *not said to happen, in a quote* | present · progressive | you | Uncle Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Baboon |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/20/)
- next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/22/)
- ↑ back to [The Jackals and the Tiger.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/14/)