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title: The Tiger, anxious to please the Hare, opened his mouth to say “Ah!”… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tiger, anxious to please the Hare, opened his mouth to say “Ah!” and was instantly precipitated to the bottom of the gulf, where he fell upon some rocks and was killed. Who acts: Tiger. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split L
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 29

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The Tiger, anxious to please the Hare, opened his mouth to say “Ah!” and was instantly precipitated to the bottom of the gulf, where he fell upon some rocks and was killed.

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**Who acts:** Tiger · **What happens:** please, open, say, precipitate, fall, kill · **To what, where:** Hare, mouth, rocks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Tiger), 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:pg75000:2:29
# text = The Tiger, anxious to please the Hare, opened his mouth to say “Ah!” and was instantly precipitated to the bottom of the gulf, where he fell upon some rocks and was killed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	please	please	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mouth	mouth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	precipitated	precipitate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
33	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	35	det	_	_
35	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	aux:pass	_	_
38	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **please** | to-infinitive | the Tiger *not said here* | the Hare |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hare=Experiencer |
| 2 | **open** | past | the Tiger | Tiger's mouth |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ah=Topic |
| 4 | **precipitate** | past · passive | the Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the bottom of the gulf; instantly *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 5 | **fall** | past | Tiger |  |  | some rocks |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rock=Location |
| 6 | **kill** | past · passive | Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |

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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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