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title: The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in th… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Who acts: Mouse, Lion. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Mouse, sentence 10

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The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net.

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**Who acts:** Mouse, Lion · **What happens:** know, find, struggle · **To what, where:** voice, Lion, net

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, Lion), 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:pg19994:19:10
# text = The Mouse knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	struggling	struggle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	xcomp	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the Mouse | the voice |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus |
| 2 | **find** | past | the Mouse *not said here* | the Lion |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent lion=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 3 | **struggle** | gerund | the Lion *not said here* |  |  | the net |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: 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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