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title: "Look," cried a Hare, "things are not so bad after all, for here are… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "Look," cried a Hare, "things are not so bad after all, for here are creatures who are even afraid of us!" Who acts: Hare, things, creatures. 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 7

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"Look," cried a Hare, "things are not so bad after all, for here are creatures who are even afraid of us!"

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**Who acts:** Hare, things, creatures · **What happens:** look, cry, not be, be · **To what, where:** creatures · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hare, things, creatures), 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:pg19994:49:7
# text = "Look," cried a Hare, "things are not so bad after all, for here are creatures who are even afraid of us!"
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
24	even	even	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a Hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **is** *in a quote* | present | things |  |  |  | after all | bad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | creatures |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** *in a quote* | present | creatures |  |  |  |  | of us; afraid *property* | tree rules |

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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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