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title: When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting. — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting. Who acts: Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mouse and the Weasel, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Mouse and the Weasel, sentence 4

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When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting.

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**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** succeed, gorge, burst · **To what, where:** last, Mouse

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Mouse and the Weasel. 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:pg19994:84:4
# text = When at last he had succeeded, he gorged himself to bursting.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gorged	gorge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** | past · perfect | Mouse |  |  | last |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **gorge** | past | Mouse | Mouse |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **burst** | gerund | Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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