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title: The Mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: The Mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it. Who acts: 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 5

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The Mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it.

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**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** not need, coax, be, see · **To what, where:** world

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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 (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:pg19994:94:5
# text = The Mouse did not need much coaxing, for he was very anxious to see the world and everything in it.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	need	need	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	coaxing	coax	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	everything	everything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	17	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **need** | past · do-support | the Mouse |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **coax** *not said to happen* | gerund | the Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | Mouse |  |  |  |  | anxious *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | Mouse *not said here* | the world |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=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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