--- title: The Hare was comforted in her death, and expiring said, “Ah! you who… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Hare was comforted in her death, and expiring said, “Ah! you who so lately, when you supposed yourself safe, exulted over my calamity, have now reason to deplore a similar misfortune.” Who acts: you, Hare. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hare), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:14:36 # text = The Hare was comforted in her death, and expiring said, “Ah! you who so lately, when you supposed yourself safe, exulted over my calamity, have now reason to deplore a similar misfortune.” 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux:pass _ _ 4 comforted comfort VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 10 expiring expire VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 11 nsubj _ _ 11 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 13 “ " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 14 Ah ah INTJ UH _ 19 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 15 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ 16 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 17 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 lately lately ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 supposed suppose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 24 yourself yourself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 23 obj _ _ 25 safe safe ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 exulted exult VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 conj _ _ 28 over over ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 30 calamity calamity NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 33 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 34 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 to to PART TO _ 36 mark _ _ 36 deplore deplore VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 34 acl _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 similar similar ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 misfortune misfortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ” " PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **comfort** | past · passive | | the Hare | | Hare's death | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 2 | **expire** | gerund | | | | | | | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **suppose** *in a quote* | past | you | yourself | | | | lately, safe *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute | | 5 | **exult** *in a quote* | participle | you *not said here* | | | my calamity | | | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **have** *in a quote* | present | you *not said here* | reason | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | | 7 | **deplore** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | a similar misfortune | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus | | 8 | **die** | | Hare | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/37/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/14/)