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title: The huntsman took no notice of the signs, but believing his word, ha… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The huntsman took no notice of the signs, but believing his word, hastened forward in the chase. Who acts: huntsman. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 82

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The huntsman took no notice of the signs, but believing his word, hastened forward in the chase.

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**Who acts:** huntsman · **What happens:** take, believe, hasten, notice, word · **To what, where:** notice, word, chase, signs

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huntsman), 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:pg21:8:82
# text = The huntsman took no notice of the signs, but believing his word, hastened forward in the chase.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	notice	notice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	believing	believe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
16	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **take** | past | the huntsman | no notice of the signs |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme |
| 2 | **believe** | gerund | the huntsman *not said here* | huntsman's word |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus |
| 3 | **hasten** | participle |  |  |  | the chase |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in chase=Trajectory |
| 4 | **notice** |  |  | the signs |  |  |  |  | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **word** |  | huntsman |  |  |  |  |  | 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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