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description: One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and said, “Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.” Who acts: Mice, One, you, we. A sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 68

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One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and said, “Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.”

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**Who acts:** Mice, One, you, we · **What happens:** peep, see, say, turn, not come · **To what, where:** HOUSE, meal bag · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. 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, you, we), 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:pg21:9:68
# text = One of the Mice, peeping stealthily out, saw her and said, “Ah, my good madam, even though you should turn into a meal-bag, we will not come near you.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Mice	mouse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	peeping	peep	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	_
7	stealthily	stealthily	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	20	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	madam	madam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	even	even	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
23	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	ccomp	_	_
27	into	into	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	meal	meal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	bag	bag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
35	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	36	advmod	_	_
36	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
37	near	near	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peep** | gerund | the Mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  | out *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | One of the Mice | HOUSE |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | One of the Mice *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **turn** *in a quote* | should | you |  |  | a meal bag |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into bag=Trajectory |
| 5 | **not** **come** *in a quote* | future | we |  |  |  |  | near you | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near you=Location |

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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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