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title: The Rabbit was quite angry--for a Rabbit--, and requested the Weasel… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rabbit was quite angry--for a Rabbit--, and requested the Weasel to move out. Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 4

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The Rabbit was quite angry--for a Rabbit--, and requested the Weasel to move out.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** be, request, move out · **To what, where:** Weasel

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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:pg19994:66:4
# text = The Rabbit was quite angry--for a Rabbit--, and requested the Weasel to move out.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	quite	quite	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	requested	request	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Rabbit |  |  |  |  | angry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **request** | past | a Rabbit *not said here* | the Weasel |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent weasel=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **move out** | to-infinitive | a Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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