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title: Even the Hare, who, as you know, has no horns and so had nothing to… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Even the Hare, who, as you know, has no horns and so had nothing to fear, passed a very restless night, dreaming awful dreams about the fearful Lion. Who acts: you, Hare. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The Aesop for Children, The Hare and His Ears, sentence 6

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Even the Hare, who, as you know, has no horns and so had nothing to fear, passed a very restless night, dreaming awful dreams about the fearful Lion.

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**Who acts:** you, Hare · **What happens:** know, have, fear, pass, dream · **To what, where:** horns, nothing, awful dreams

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and His Ears. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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:pg19994:144:6
# text = Even the Hare, who, as you know, has no horns and so had nothing to fear, passed a very restless night, dreaming awful dreams about the fearful Lion.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	horns	horn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	16	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	very	very	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	dreaming	dream	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
28	awful	awful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Lion	lion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **have** | present | the Hare | no horns |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient |
| 3 | **have** | past | the Hare *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 4 | **fear** | to-infinitive | the Hare *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **pass** | past | the Hare *not said here* |  |  |  | night |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **dream** | gerund | the Hare *not said here* | awful dreams |  |  |  | about the fearful Lion | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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