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title: “Now, look at me,” called out the conceited young Tiger from inside,… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Now, look at me,” called out the conceited young Tiger from inside, “don’t I look nice in my fine house?” Who acts: you, Man. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 74

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“Now, look at me,” called out the conceited young Tiger from inside, “don’t I look nice in my fine house?”

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**Who acts:** you, Man · **What happens:** look, call out, do, not look · **To what, where:** conceited young Tiger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Man), 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:pg75000:3:74
# text = “Now, look at me,” called out the conceited young Tiger from inside, “don’t I look nice in my fine house?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	conceited	conceited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	inside	inside	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	n’t	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	22	advmod	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
23	nice	nice	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	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 | **look** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | the conceited young Tiger |  |  | now | at me | tree rules |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **do** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **look** *in a quote* | present | the Man *= man* |  |  |  |  | nice *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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