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title: "I was strolling along very peaceably when, just as I turned the cor… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: "I was strolling along very peaceably when, just as I turned the corner into the next yard, I saw two strange creatures. Who acts: 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 3

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"I was strolling along very peaceably when, just as I turned the corner into the next yard, I saw two strange creatures.

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**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** stroll, turn, see · **To what, where:** corner, two strange creatures

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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), 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:pg19994:76:3
# text = "I was strolling along very peaceably when, just as I turned the corner into the next yard, I saw two strange creatures.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	strolling	stroll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
5	along	along	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	peaceably	peaceably	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	just	just	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	corner	corner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	yard	yard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
23	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stroll** *in a quote* | past · progressive | Mouse |  |  |  |  | along, peaceably *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** *in a quote* | past | Mouse | the corner |  |  |  | into the next yard | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent corner=Theme into yard=Trajectory |
| 3 | **see** *in a quote* | past | Mouse | two strange creatures |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer creature=Stimulus |

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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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