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title: The Tiger consented to this, and after going on a little farther tog… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tiger consented to this, and after going on a little farther together they met a Hare, hopping quietly down the road towards them. Who acts: Tiger, places. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and the
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 73

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The Tiger consented to this, and after going on a little farther together they met a Hare, hopping quietly down the road towards them.

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**Who acts:** Tiger, places · **What happens:** consent, go, meet, hop · **To what, where:** Hare

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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, places), 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:pg75000:4:73
# text = The Tiger consented to this, and after going on a little farther together they met a Hare, hopping quietly down the road towards them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	consented	consent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
13	farther	far	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	obl	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	hopping	hop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
21	quietly	quietly	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consent** | past | the Tiger |  |  |  |  | to this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | places *= place* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on far=Location |
| 3 | **meet** | past | places *= place* | a Hare |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **hop** | gerund | places *= place* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | down the road; towards places *= place*; quietly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards they=Destination |

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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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