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title: So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort insid… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket. 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 8

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So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket.

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**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** sit, groan, moan, escape · **To what, where:** discomfort, basket

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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:pg19994:84:8
# text = So there he sat groaning and moaning, both from the discomfort inside him and his anxiety to escape from the basket.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	xcomp	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	moaning	moan	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc:preconj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	discomfort	discomfort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	inside	inside	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Mouse |  |  | the discomfort inside corn; there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund | Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **moan** | gerund | Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **escape** | to-infinitive | Mouse *not said here* |  |  | the basket |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from basket=Initial\_Location |

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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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