---
title: A Mouse, supposing him to be food, leaped upon him, and was instantl… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: A Mouse, supposing him to be food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to death. Who acts: Mouse. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/28/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/) / 28

# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 28

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A Mouse, supposing him to be food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to death.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Mouse · **What happens:** suppose, be, leap, catch, squeeze · **To what, where:** Acquaintance, food

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg21:965`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg21:12:28
# text = A Mouse, supposing him to be food, leaped upon him, and was instantly caught and squeezed to death.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Mouse	mouse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	supposing	suppose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
8	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	leaped	leap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | gerund | a Mouse *not said here* | Acquaintance |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | a Mouse *not said here* | food |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leap** | past | a Mouse |  |  |  |  | upon Acquaintance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory |
| 4 | **catch** | past · passive | a Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | instantly *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **squeeze** | participle | a Mouse *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to death | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/27/)
- next →: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/29/)
- ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/)