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title: A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow. Who acts: Hare, Tortoise day. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 1

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A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.

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**Who acts:** Hare, Tortoise day · **What happens:** make, be · **To what, where:** fun

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, Tortoise day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:128:1
# text = A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	flat	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
11	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
12	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	cop	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | a Hare | fun of the Tortoise day |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fun=Product |
| 2 | **is** | gerund | the Tortoise day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slow *property* | tree rules |

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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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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