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title: But when the Mice further debated who among them should thus “bell t… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics
description: But when the Mice further debated who among them should thus “bell the Cat,” there was no one found to do it. Who acts: Mice, one. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 88

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But when the Mice further debated who among them should thus “bell the Cat,” there was no one found to do it.

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**Who acts:** Mice, one · **What happens:** debate, bell, be, find, do · **To what, where:** Cat, one, bell

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mice, one), 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:pg21:7:88
# text = But when the Mice further debated who among them should thus “bell the Cat,” there was no one found to do it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	6	mark	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Mice	Mouse	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	further	further	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	debated	debate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obl	_	_
10	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
22	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **debate** | participle | the Mice | the Cat |  |  |  | further *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **bell** *in a quote* | should |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | past | no one |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | participle |  | no one *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | to-infinitive | no one *not said here* | bell |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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