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title: The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel ve… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up. Who acts: Hare, Tortoise, Fox. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The H
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# The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 7

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The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

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**Who acts:** Hare, Tortoise, Fox · **What happens:** be, make, feel, try, lie down, take · **To what, where:** sight, race, course, nap

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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, Fox), 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:pg19994:128:7
# text = The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	xcomp	_	_
16	very	very	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	19	advmod	_	_
19	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
22	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	ccomp	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	try	try	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
34	down	down	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
39	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	advcl	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	nap	nap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obj	_	_
42	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	46	mark	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
45	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	46	aux	_	_
46	catch	catch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	advcl	_	_
47	up	up	ADP	RP	_	46	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Hare |  |  | sight |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **feel** | present | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  | ridiculous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is** | past | Fox |  |  |  |  | for Hare | tree rules |
| 5 | **try** | to-infinitive | the Tortoise *not said here* | a race |  |  |  | with a Hare | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent race=Patient with hare=Theme |
| 6 | **lie down** | past | Tortoise |  |  | the course |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside course=Location |
| 7 | **take** | to-infinitive | Tortoise *not said here* | a nap |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme |
| 8 | **catch up** | should | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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