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title: A young Mouse in search of adventure was running along the bank of a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: A young Mouse in search of adventure was running along the bank of a pond where lived a Frog. Who acts: young Mouse. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frog and the Mouse, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Frog and the Mouse, sentence 1

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A young Mouse in search of adventure was running along the bank of a pond where lived a Frog.

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**Who acts:** young Mouse · **What happens:** run, live, search · **To what, where:** bank, Frog, adventure

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frog and the 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), 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:pg19994:94:1
# text = A young Mouse in search of adventure was running along the bank of a pond where lived a Frog.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	running	run	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Frog	frog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past · progressive | a young Mouse in search of adventure |  |  | the bank of a pond |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory |
| 2 | **live** | past |  | a Frog |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme frog=Location |
| 3 | **search** |  |  | adventure |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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