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title: “Don’t you find it cold, Uncle Tiger? shall I light you a fire?” — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Don’t you find it cold, Uncle Tiger? shall I light you a fire?” Who acts: you, 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 19

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“Don’t you find it cold, Uncle Tiger? shall I light you a fire?”

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**Who acts:** you, Hare · **What happens:** not do, find, light · **To what, where:** Uncle Tiger, eye, fire, you

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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 (you, 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:pg75000:2:19
# text = “Don’t you find it cold, Uncle Tiger? shall I light you a fire?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
4	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
6	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Uncle	Uncle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
12	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	light	light	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
15	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **do** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Uncle Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **find** *in a quote* | present | you | eye |  |  |  | cold *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **light** *in a quote* | shall | the Hare *= hare* | a fire | you |  |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary fire=Product |

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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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