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title: In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all the luxuries and delights of city life that her friend had described for her. Who acts: Country Mouse, Mouse, city life. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with its dependency tre
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# The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 6

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In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all the luxuries and delights of city life that her friend had described for her.

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**Who acts:** Country Mouse, Mouse, city life · **What happens:** dream, be, describe, sleep, delight · **To what, where:** sleep, Town Mouse, friend · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, Mouse, city life), 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:pg19994:13:6
# text = In her sleep the Country Mouse dreamed she was a Town Mouse with all the luxuries and delights of city life that her friend had described for her.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Town	town	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	ccomp	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	16	det:predet	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	luxuries	luxury	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	delights	delight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | the Country Mouse |  |  | Mouse's sleep |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Mouse | a Town Mouse |  |  |  | with all luxuries and delights of city life | tree rules |
| 3 | **describe** | past · perfect · passive |  | Mouse's friend |  |  |  | for Mouse | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **sleep** |  | Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **delight** |  | city life |  |  |  |  |  | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=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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