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title: "I am sure he was just about to speak to me when the monster I have… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "I am sure he was just about to speak to me when the monster I have told you about let out a screaming yell, and I ran for my life." Who acts: Mouse, you. 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 cla
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# The Aesop for Children, The Cat, the Cock, and the Young Mouse, sentence 14

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"I am sure he was just about to speak to me when the monster I have told you about let out a screaming yell, and I ran for my life."

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**Who acts:** Mouse, you · **What happens:** be, tell, let out, scream, run · **To what, where:** Mouse, monster, screaming yell · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Mouse, you), 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:pg19994:76:14
# text = "I am sure he was just about to speak to me when the monster I have told you about let out a screaming yell, and I ran for my life."
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sure	sure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	just	just	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	18	mark	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	monster	monster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
19	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	about	about	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	let	let	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	screaming	scream	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	yell	yell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Mouse |  |  |  |  | sure *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | past | Mouse |  | Mouse |  |  | about, speak *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present · perfect · passive |  | the monster |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 4 | **let out** *in a quote* | present | you | a screaming yell |  |  |  | about *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yell=Theme |
| 5 | **scream** *speech: express* *in a quote* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **run** *in a quote* | past | Mouse |  |  |  |  | for my life | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for life=Beneficiary |

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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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