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title: The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place. Who acts: least shadow. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hares and the Frogs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Hares and the Frogs, sentence 2

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The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place.

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**Who acts:** least shadow · **What happens:** send, scurry · **To what, where:** Hares, fright

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hares and the Frogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (least shadow), 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:pg19994:49:2
# text = The least shadow, sends them scurrying in fright to a hiding place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	_
7	scurrying	scurry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hiding	hiding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | the least shadow | Hares *= hare* |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **scurry** | gerund | the least shadow *not said here* |  |  | fright |  | to a hiding place | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |

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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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