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title: On his arrival, the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, bean… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: On his arrival, the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from a basket. Who acts: Town Mouse, all, luxury. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency 
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 22

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On his arrival, the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from a basket.

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**Who acts:** Town Mouse, all, luxury · **What happens:** place, dry, bring, arrive · **To what, where:** bread, arrival, dainty piece, basket

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Town Mouse, all, luxury), 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:pg21:13:22
# text = On his arrival, the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from a basket.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Town	Town	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	before	before	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	beans	bean	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	dried	dry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	figs	fig	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	honey	honey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	raisins	raisin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	last	last	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	dainty	dainty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	cheese	cheese	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	basket	basket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | the Town Mouse | bread and barley and beans and dried figs and honey and raisins |  | luxury's arrival | before luxury |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on arrival=Destination |
| 2 | **dry** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | past | all | a dainty piece of cheese |  | a basket |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from basket=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **arrive** |  | luxury |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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:** «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.

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