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title: A HART, hard pressed in the chase, hid himself beneath the large lea… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A HART, hard pressed in the chase, hid himself beneath the large leaves of a Vine. Who acts: HART. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 58

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A HART, hard pressed in the chase, hid himself beneath the large leaves of a Vine.

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**Who acts:** HART · **What happens:** press, hide · **To what, where:** HART, chase, bird, large leaves

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HART), 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:pg21:11:58
# text = A HART, hard pressed in the chase, hid himself beneath the large leaves of a Vine.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	HART	hart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
5	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	hid	hide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	10	obj	_	_
12	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Vine	Vine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | participle |  | a HART *not said here* |  | the chase |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hide** | past | a HART | bird |  | the large leaves of a Vine |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient beneath leaf=Location |

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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:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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