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title: The sight so amused the Hare that he leaned back on a handy stone, a… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The sight so amused the Hare that he leaned back on a handy stone, and laughed to such an extent that he actually split his upper lip. Who acts: sight, 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 an
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# Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 51

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The sight so amused the Hare that he leaned back on a handy stone, and laughed to such an extent that he actually split his upper lip.

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**Who acts:** sight, hare · **What happens:** amuse, learn back, laugh, split · **To what, where:** Hare, handy stone, extent, upper lip

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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 (sight, 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:pg75000:2:51
# text = The sight so amused the Hare that he leaned back on a handy stone, and laughed to such an extent that he actually split his upper lip.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	so	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	amused	amuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	handy	handy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	21	det:predet	_	_
20	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	actually	actually	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	split	split	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	upper	upper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amuse** | past | the sight | the Hare |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hare=Experiencer |
| 2 | **learn back** | past | hare |  |  | a handy stone |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **laugh** | past | the sight *not said here* |  | such extent |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to extent=Recipient |
| 4 | **split** | past | hare | hare's upper lip |  |  |  | actually *property* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=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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