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title: _Act in haste and repent at leisure--and often in pain. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: _Act in haste and repent at leisure--and often in pain. Who acts: _ Act. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 8

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\_Act in haste and repent at leisure--and often in pain.

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**Who acts:** \_ Act · **What happens:** repent · **To what, where:** leisure

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (\_ Act), 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:pg19994:90:8
# text = _Act in haste and repent at leisure--and often in pain.
1	_	_	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	repent	repent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	leisure	leisure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repent** | present | \_ Act in haste |  |  | leisure |  |  | 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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