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title: The Lions made this reply: “Your words, O Hares! are good; but they… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Lions made this reply: “Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.” Who acts: Lions, words, Hares, we. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 51

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The Lions made this reply: “Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.”

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**Who acts:** Lions, words, Hares, we, Your · **What happens:** make, be, lack, have, word · **To what, where:** reply, claws · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lions, words, Hares, we), 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:pg21:12:51
# text = The Lions made this reply: “Your words, O Hares! are good; but they lack both claws and teeth such as we have.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Lions	lion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
7	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	12	case	_	_
12	Hares	hare	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	lack	lack	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Lions | this reply |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Your words and Hares |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lack** *in a quote* | present | Hares *= hare* | both claws and teeth |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** *in a quote* | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **word** *in a quote* |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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