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title: So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go ho… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go home with her to the city, she gladly said yes. Who acts: Town Mouse, 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 7

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So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go home with her to the city, she gladly said yes.

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**Who acts:** Town Mouse, Mouse · **What happens:** ask, go, say · **To what, where:** Country Mouse, city · **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 (Town Mouse, 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:pg19994:13:7
# text = So the next day when the Town Mouse asked the Country Mouse to go home with her to the city, she gladly said yes.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
22	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	yes	yes	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Pos	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | the Town Mouse |  | the Country Mouse |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S\_INF»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  | the city |  | with Mouse; home *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Mouse |  |  |  | day | gladly *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic |

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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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