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title: The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.” Who acts: Hare, weak. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 53

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The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.”

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**Who acts:** Hare, weak · **What happens:** say, long, see, take · **To what, where:** place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, weak), 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:pg21:3:53
# text = The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	longed	long	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	nsubj	_	_
21	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	impunity	impunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Hare |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **long** *in a quote* | present · perfect | the Hare *= hare* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **see** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive | the Hare *= hare* *not said here* |  |  |  | day |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **take** *in a quote* | shall | the weak | BEASTS's place |  |  |  | with impunity; by the side of the strong | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in which=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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