--- title: As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and ro… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty. Who acts: Mouse, Town Mouse, friend. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mouse, Town Mouse, friend), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg21:13:19 # text = As they were on the bare plowlands, eating there wheat-stocks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the Town Mouse said to his friend, “You live here the life of the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty. 1 As as ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 3 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 plowlands plowland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 eating eat VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 10 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 11 wheat wheat NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 stocks stock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 pulled pull VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 hedgerow hedgerow NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 Town Town PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 Mouse mouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 25 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 “ " PUNCT `` _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 31 You you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 33 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ants ant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 40 while while SCONJ IN _ 46 mark _ _ 41 in in ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 42 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 43 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 obl _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 46 cop _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 47 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 plenty plenty NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | Mouse | | | | | as the bare plowlands | tree rules | | 2 | **eat** | gerund | | | | there | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pull up** | participle | | eating wheat stocks and roots *not said here* | | | | from the hedgerow | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from hedgerow=Co-Patient | | 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the Town Mouse | | disappointment's friend | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient | | 5 | **live** *in a quote* | present | disappointment's friend *= friend* | | | here | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | | the horn | | my house | | of plenty | tree rules | 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. **Text:** «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/18/) - next →: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/20/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/)