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title: After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse talked about her life in the city while the Country Mouse listened. Who acts: friends, Town Mouse, Country Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with its dependency tree and t
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# The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 4

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After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse talked about her life in the city while the Country Mouse listened.

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**Who acts:** friends, Town Mouse, Country Mouse · **What happens:** have, talk, listen · **To what, where:** long talk, city

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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 (friends, Town Mouse, 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:pg19994:13:4
# text = After the meal the friends had a long talk, or rather the Town Mouse talked about her life in the city while the Country Mouse listened.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	talk	talk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	talked	talk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	about	about	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | the friends | a long talk |  |  | after the meal |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talk=Patient |
| 2 | **talk** | past | the Town Mouse |  |  | the city |  | about Mouse's life | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about life=Topic |
| 3 | **listen** | past | the Country Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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