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title: A very young Mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A very young Mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost came to grief the very first time he ventured out. Who acts: young Mouse, Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 1

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A very young Mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost came to grief the very first time he ventured out.

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**Who acts:** young Mouse, Mouse · **What happens:** not see, come, venture out · **To what, where:** anything, grief, first time

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young 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:pg19994:76:1
# text = A very young Mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost came to grief the very first time he ventured out.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	acl:relcl	_	_
10	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
15	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	very	very	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	amod	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	ventured	venture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **see** | past · perfect | a young Mouse | anything |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
| 2 | **come** | past | a young Mouse |  |  | grief | time | almost *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to grief=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **venture out** | past | Mouse | the first time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent time=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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