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title: When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened sudden… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened suddenly and in came the servants to clear the table, followed by the House Dog. Who acts: pastries, door. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 12

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When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened suddenly and in came the servants to clear the table, followed by the House Dog.

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**Who acts:** pastries, door · **What happens:** venture back, open, come, clear, follow · **To what, where:** feast, last, servants, table

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastries, door), 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:pg19994:13:12
# text = When at last they ventured back to the feast, the door opened suddenly and in came the servants to clear the table, followed by the House Dog.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	opened	open	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	clear	clear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Dog	Dog	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture back** | past | pastries *= pastry* |  | the feast | last |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to feast=Recipient |
| 2 | **open** | past | the door |  |  |  |  | suddenly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the door *not said here* | the servants |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location servant=Theme |
| 4 | **clear** | to-infinitive | the door *not said here* | the table |  |  |  |  | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent table=Source |
| 5 | **follow** | participle |  | the table *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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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