--- title: Just as they were beginning to eat, someone opened the door, and the… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: Just as they were beginning to eat, someone opened the door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing. Who acts: Mouse, someone, two. 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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, someone, two), 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:pg21:13:24 # text = Just as they were beginning to eat, someone opened the door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing. 1 Just just ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 2 as as SCONJ IN _ 5 mark _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 beginning begin VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 9 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 10 nsubj _ _ 10 opened open VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 16 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nsubj _ _ 17 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 squeaking squeak VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 17 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 as as ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 19 advmod _ _ 23 as as SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 hole hole NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 30 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 32 that that SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 33 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 36 nsubj _ _ 34 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 35 only only ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 acl _ _ 37 room room NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nmod _ _ 40 by by SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 41 squeezing squeeze VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 36 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **begin** | past · progressive | Mouse | | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | | 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | Mouse *not said here* | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **open** | past | someone | the door | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | | 4 | **run off** | past | Mouse | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **squeak** | gerund | Mouse *not said here* | | a hole | | | fast *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to hole=Recipient | | 6 | **find** | could | two | room | | room | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Topic | | 7 | **squeeze** | gerund | two *not said here* | | | | | | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/23/) - next →: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/25/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/)