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title: But a few days later, the foolish Bat went blindly into the nest of… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But a few days later, the foolish Bat went blindly into the nest of another Weasel. Who acts: foolish Bat. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 11

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But a few days later, the foolish Bat went blindly into the nest of another Weasel.

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**Who acts:** foolish Bat · **What happens:** go · **To what, where:** nest

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bat and the Weasels. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish Bat), 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:pg19994:109:11
# text = But a few days later, the foolish Bat went blindly into the nest of another Weasel.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	Bat	Bat	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	blindly	blindly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	nest	nest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	Weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the foolish Bat |  |  | the nest of another Weasel |  | blindly, late *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme into nest=Initial\_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:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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