The Aesop for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise, sentence 9

But the Hare slept on very peacefully; and when at last he did wake up, the Tortoise was near the goal.

Who acts: Hare, Tortoise · What happens: sleep, wake up, be · To what, where: goal

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), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 slept	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 peacefully	case
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 peacefully	advmod
7	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	4 slept	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 last	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 last	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 last	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 last	case
12	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 slept	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wake	nsubj
14	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 wake	aux
15	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 last	ccomp
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 wake	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 goal	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Tortoise	det
19	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 goal	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 goal	cop
21	near	near	ADP	_	23 goal	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 goal	det
23	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wake	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	sleep	past	the Hare		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wake up	past · do-support	Hare		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	the Tortoise	the goal	tree rules

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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