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title: “Good-morning, Brother Wolf and Brother Fox,” said the Hare; “where… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Good-morning, Brother Wolf and Brother Fox,” said the Hare; “where are you two going this fine morning?” Who acts: Hare, you, two. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 18

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“Good-morning, Brother Wolf and Brother Fox,” said the Hare; “where are you two going this fine morning?”

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**Who acts:** Hare, you, two · **What happens:** say, be, go · **To what, where:** two · **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 Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, you, two), 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:pg75000:8:18
# text = “Good-morning, Brother Wolf and Brother Fox,” said the Hare; “where are you two going this fine morning?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	Fox	Fox	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nsubj	_	_
22	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	ccomp	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | the Hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | you | two |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | two |  |  |  | morning |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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