The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 7

The Hare was soon far out of sight, and to make the Tortoise feel very deeply how ridiculous it was for him to try a race with a Hare, he lay down beside the course to take a nap until the Tortoise should catch up.

Who acts: Hare, Tortoise, Fox · What happens: be, make, feel, try, lie down, take · To what, where: sight, race, course, nap

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, Tortoise, Fox), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 sight	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sight	cop
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 far	advmod
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 sight	advmod
6	out	out	ADP	_	8 sight	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 sight	case
8	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 make	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 make	cc
11	to	to	PART	_	12 make	mark
12	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 sight	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Tortoise	det
14	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 feel	nsubj
15	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 make	xcomp
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 deeply	advmod
17	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	19 ridiculous	advmod
18	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	19 ridiculous	advmod
19	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 feel	xcomp
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 him	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 him	cop
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 feel	ccomp
24	to	to	PART	_	25 try	mark
25	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 feel	advcl
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 race	det
27	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 try	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 Hare	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 Hare	det
30	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 race	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 lay	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 lay	nsubj
33	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 make	parataxis
34	down	down	ADV	_	33 lay	advmod
35	beside	beside	ADP	_	37 course	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 course	det
37	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 lay	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 take	mark
39	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 lay	advcl
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 nap	det
41	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
42	until	until	SCONJ	_	46 catch	mark
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 Tortoise	det
44	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 catch	nsubj
45	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 catch	aux
46	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 take	advcl
47	up	up	ADP	_	46 catch	compound:prt
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 sight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Hare		sight	far property	tree rules
2	make	to-infinitive					tree rules
3	feel	present	the Tortoise			ridiculous property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
4	is	past	Fox			for Hare	tree rules
5	try	to-infinitive	the Tortoise not said here	a race		with a Hare	vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP PP.theme PP.attribute»: agent=Agent race=Patient with hare=Theme
6	lie down	past	Tortoise		the course	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside course=Location
7	take	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here	a nap			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme
8	catch up	should	the Tortoise				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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