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title: The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping. Who acts: Tortoise, 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 8

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The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping.

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**Who acts:** Tortoise, Hare · **What happens:** keep, go, pass, sleep · **To what, where:** place

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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 (Tortoise, 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:pg19994:128:8
# text = The Tortoise meanwhile kept going slowly but steadily, and, after a time, passed the place where the Hare was sleeping.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	steadily	steadily	ADV	RB	_	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	after	after	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	sleeping	sleep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the Tortoise |  |  |  |  | meanwhile *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | the Tortoise *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pass** | past | the Tortoise *not said here* | the place |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme place=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sleep** | past · progressive | the Hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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