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title: The Tiger soon got tired of sitting in the house and tried to force… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tiger soon got tired of sitting in the house and tried to force his way out; but the house was too strongly built for him to be able to make any impression upon the walls, so he gave it up in despair and soon began to suffer severely from hunger and thirst. Who acts: Tiger. A sentence of «Folk t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 1

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The Tiger soon got tired of sitting in the house and tried to force his way out; but the house was too strongly built for him to be able to make any impression upon the walls, so he gave it up in despair and soon began to suffer severely from hunger and thirst.

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**Who acts:** Tiger · **What happens:** get, sit, try, force out, build, be · **To what, where:** house, way, impression, despair, hunger

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This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. 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:pg75000:4:1
# text = The Tiger soon got tired of sitting in the house and tried to force his way out; but the house was too strongly built for him to be able to make any impression upon the walls, so he gave it up in despair and soon began to suffer severely from hunger and thirst.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	tired	tired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	sitting	sit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	tried	try	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	force	force	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
23	too	too	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	advcl	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	34	det	_	_
34	impression	impression	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	so	so	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obj	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	41	compound:prt	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
47	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
48	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	suffer	suffer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	50	advmod	_	_
52	from	from	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	thirst	thirst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | the Tiger |  |  |  |  | soon, tired *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sit** | gerund | the Tiger *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in house=Location |
| 3 | **try** | past | the Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **force out** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Tiger *not said here* | Tiger's way |  |  |  | out *property* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 5 | **build** | past · passive |  | the house |  |  |  | strongly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 6 | **is** | to-infinitive | Tiger |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **make** | to-infinitive | Tiger *not said here* | any impression |  |  |  | upon the walls | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset impression=Product |
| 8 | **give up** | past | Tiger | impression |  | despair |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source |
| 9 | **begin** | past | Tiger *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 10 | **suffer** | to-infinitive | Tiger *not said here* |  |  | hunger and thirst |  | severely *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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