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title: So the Hare lighted a fire just in front of the Tiger, and when it w… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So the Hare lighted a fire just in front of the Tiger, and when it was blazing up he kept putting the sticks nearer and nearer the Tiger, so that the Tiger was obliged to keep edging further and further away, when all of a sudden he toppled over backwards into the gulf behind. Who acts: fire, Tiger,
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 21

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So the Hare lighted a fire just in front of the Tiger, and when it was blazing up he kept putting the sticks nearer and nearer the Tiger, so that the Tiger was obliged to keep edging further and further away, when all of a sudden he toppled over backwards into the gulf behind.

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**Who acts:** fire, Tiger, all · **What happens:** light, blaze up, keep, put, oblige, edge · **To what, where:** Hare, front, sticks, Tiger, gulf

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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 (fire, Tiger, all), 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:pg75000:2:21
# text = So the Hare lighted a fire just in front of the Tiger, and when it was blazing up he kept putting the sticks nearer and nearer the Tiger, so that the Tiger was obliged to keep edging further and further away, when all of a sudden he toppled over backwards into the gulf behind.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
15	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
19	up	up	ADP	RP	_	18	compound:prt	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	xcomp	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sticks	stick	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	22	xcomp	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	so	so	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	keep	keep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
39	edging	edge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	xcomp	_	_
40	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	further	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	40	conj	_	_
43	away	away	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
45	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	51	advmod	_	_
46	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	51	nsubj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	nmod	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	toppled	topple	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
52	over	over	ADP	RP	_	51	compound:prt	_	_
53	backwards	backwards	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
54	into	into	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
57	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **light** | participle |  | the Hare |  | front of the Tiger |  | a fire *obj* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product |
| 2 | **blaze up** | past · progressive | fire |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **keep** | past | Tiger |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | gerund | Tiger *not said here* | the sticks |  |  |  | near *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent stick=Goal |
| 5 | **oblige** | past · passive |  | the Tiger |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **keep** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **edge** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **topple over** | past | all of a sudden |  |  | the gulf |  | Tiger *nsubj*; backwards *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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