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title: A hare was going along a road one day, when suddenly, on turning a c… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: A hare was going along a road one day, when suddenly, on turning a corner, he came upon a large Tiger. Who acts: hare. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 1

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A hare was going along a road one day, when suddenly, on turning a corner, he came upon a large Tiger.

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**Who acts:** hare · **What happens:** go, turn, come · **To what, where:** road, corner

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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:pg75000:2:1
# text = A hare was going along a road one day, when suddenly, on turning a corner, he came upon a large Tiger.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hare	hare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	along	along	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | **go** | past · progressive | a hare |  |  | a road | day | suddenly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | a hare *not said here* | a corner |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | hare |  |  |  |  | upon a large Tiger | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tiger=Location |

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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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