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title: The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tort… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed. Who acts: idea, Hare. 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 5

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The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed.

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**Who acts:** idea, Hare · **What happens:** amuse, run, agree · **To what, where:** Hare, idea, race, thing

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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 (idea, Hare), 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:pg19994:128:5
# text = The Hare was much amused at the idea of running a race with the Tortoise, but for the fun of the thing he agreed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	much	much	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	amused	amuse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	running	run	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fun	fun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	agreed	agree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amuse** | past · passive |  | the Hare |  | the idea |  | for the fun of the thing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **run** | gerund | the idea *not said here* | a race |  |  |  | with the Tortoise | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Product with tortoise=Material |
| 3 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past | Hare | the thing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |

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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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