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title: The Hunter, turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fea… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Hunter, turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fear, replied, “No, thank you. Who acts: Hunter. 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 17

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The Hunter, turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fear, replied, “No, thank you.

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**Who acts:** Hunter · **What happens:** turn, chatter, reply, thank · **To what, where:** fear, Hunter, you · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Hunter), 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:pg21:9:17
# text = The Hunter, turning very pale and chattering with his teeth from fear, replied, “No, thank you.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	conj	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	thank	thank	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
21	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund | the Hunter *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **chatter** | gerund | the Hunter *not said here* |  |  | fear |  | with Lion's teeth | vn chit\_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tooth=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle · passive |  | the Hunter |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **thank** *speech: thank* *in a quote* | present |  |  | you |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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