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title: He was just in the act of seizing her, when a fine young Hart trotte… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: He was just in the act of seizing her, when a fine young Hart trotted by, and he left the Hare to follow him. Who acts: Lion, act. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 137

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He was just in the act of seizing her, when a fine young Hart trotted by, and he left the Hare to follow him.

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**Who acts:** Lion, act · **What happens:** be, seize, trot, leave, follow · **To what, where:** act, Hare, fine young Hart, Lion

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, act), 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:pg21:9:137
# text = He was just in the act of seizing her, when a fine young Hart trotted by, and he left the Hare to follow him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	just	just	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	seizing	seize	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	acl	_	_
9	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	16	advmod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Hart	Hart	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	trotted	trot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Hare	Hare	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	advcl	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Lion |  |  | the act |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **seize** | gerund | the act *not said here* | Hare |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 3 | **trot** | participle · passive |  | a fine young Hart |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | past | Lion | the Hare |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme |
| 5 | **follow** | to-infinitive | Lion *not said here* | Lion |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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