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title: “Pull yourself!” shrieked the Fox, who was now beginning to feel ver… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: “Pull yourself!” shrieked the Fox, who was now beginning to feel very uncomfortable. Who acts: Fox. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 51

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“Pull yourself!” shrieked the Fox, who was now beginning to feel very uncomfortable.

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**Who acts:** Fox · **What happens:** pull, shriek, begin, feel · **To what, where:** yourself, Fox · **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 (Fox), 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:pg75000:8:51
# text = “Pull yourself!” shrieked the Fox, who was now beginning to feel very uncomfortable.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Pull	pull	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
3	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	shrieked	shriek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Fox	fox	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
13	beginning	begin	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pull** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | yourself |  |  |  |  | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme |
| 2 | **shriek** | past |  | the Fox |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **begin** | past · progressive | the Fox |  |  |  | now |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **feel** | to-infinitive | the Fox *not said here* |  |  |  |  | uncomfortable *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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