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title: A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose. Who acts: timid little Mouse, Mouse. 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 2

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A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose.

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**Who acts:** timid little Mouse, Mouse · **What happens:** come, get away, run, fright · **To what, where:** fright

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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 (timid little 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:pg19994:19:2
# text = A timid little Mouse came upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion's nose.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	fright	fright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
20	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	across	across	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Lion	Lion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	's	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	nose	nose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a timid little Mouse |  |  |  |  | upon Lion; unexpectedly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 2 | **get away** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run** | past | a timid little Mouse *not said here* |  |  | Mouse's fright and haste |  | across the Lion's nose | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fright=Trajectory |
| 4 | **fright** |  | Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | nom fright «feeling transitive»: poss=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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