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title: The foolish Tiger on hearing this proceeded to scrape out his other… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The foolish Tiger on hearing this proceeded to scrape out his other eye and eat that. Who acts: foolish Tiger, this. 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 16

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The foolish Tiger on hearing this proceeded to scrape out his other eye and eat that.

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**Who acts:** foolish Tiger, this · **What happens:** hear, proceed, scrape out, eat · **To what, where:** this, other eye, that, foolish Tiger

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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 (foolish Tiger, this), 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:pg75000:2:16
# text = The foolish Tiger on hearing this proceeded to scrape out his other eye and eat that.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obj	_	_
7	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	scrape	scrape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | the foolish Tiger *not said here* | this |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **proceed** | participle | this *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **scrape out** | to-infinitive | this *not said here* | Tiger's other eye |  |  |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 4 | **eat** | present | this *not said here* | that |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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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