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title: The Hunter ran after him, as if he was sure of overtaking him, but t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hunter ran after him, as if he was sure of overtaking him, but the Horseman increased more and more the distance between them. Who acts: Hunter, hare, Horseman. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 102

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The Hunter ran after him, as if he was sure of overtaking him, but the Horseman increased more and more the distance between them.

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**Who acts:** Hunter, hare, Horseman · **What happens:** run, be, overtake, increase · **To what, where:** hare

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter, hare, Horseman), 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:pg21:16:102
# text = The Hunter ran after him, as if he was sure of overtaking him, but the Horseman increased more and more the distance between them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	overtaking	overtake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Horseman	Horseman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	increased	increase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	between	between	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past | the Hunter |  |  |  | after hare |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | hare |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **overtake** | gerund | hare *not said here* | hare |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **increase** | past | the Horseman |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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