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title: The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such good ch… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms and lamented his own hard fate. Who acts: Country Mouse, luxury. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 23

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The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms and lamented his own hard fate.

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**Who acts:** Country Mouse, luxury · **What happens:** be, express, lament, sight, satisfy, fate · **To what, where:** sight, satisfaction, warm terms, own hard fate, such good cheer

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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 (Country Mouse, 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:pg21:13:23
# text = The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms and lamented his own hard fate.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Country	Country	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
6	much	much	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	delighted	delighted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	expressed	express	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	warm	warm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	lamented	lament	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
25	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund | the Country Mouse *not said here* |  |  | the sight of such good cheer |  | delighted *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **express** | past | the Country Mouse | luxury's satisfaction |  | warm terms |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme |
| 3 | **lament** | past | the Country Mouse *not said here* | luxury's own hard fate |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | such good cheer |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **satisfy** |  | luxury |  |  |  |  |  | nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **fate** |  | luxury |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: 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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