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title: When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they fo… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they found on the table in the dining room the leavings of a very fine banquet. Who acts: friends, Town Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# The Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, sentence 8

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When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they found on the table in the dining room the leavings of a very fine banquet.

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**Who acts:** friends, Town Mouse · **What happens:** reach, live, find · **To what, where:** mansion, 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 (friends, Town 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:pg19994:13:8
# text = When they reached the mansion in which the Town Mouse lived, they found on the table in the dining room the leavings of a very fine banquet.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dining	dining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	leavings	leaving	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | friends *= friend* | the mansion |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mansion=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past | the Town Mouse |  |  | the mansion |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | friends *= friend* |  |  | the table |  | in the dining room  the leavings of a fine banquet | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: 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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