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title: Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat!" — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat!" Who acts: I, Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 4

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Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat!"

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**Who acts:** I, Mouse · **What happens:** catch, go, eat · **To what, where:** Mouse

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Mouse), 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:pg19994:109:4
# text = Every Mouse I catch, I am going to eat!"
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	catch	catch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | I | every Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Theme |
| 2 | **go** | present · progressive | every Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | every Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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