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title: For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns,… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink. Who acts: Country Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 2

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For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink.

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**Who acts:** Country Mouse · **What happens:** serve · **To what, where:** wheat stalks

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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 (Country 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:pg19994:13:2
# text = For lunch the Country Mouse served wheat stalks, roots, and acorns, with a dash of cold water for drink.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	lunch	lunch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	served	serve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	stalks	stalk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	acorns	acorn	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dash	dash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	cold	cold	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | past | the Country Mouse | wheat stalks and roots and acorns |  |  |  | for lunch; with a dash of cold water for drink | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stalk=Theme for lunch=Recipient |

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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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