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title: This Weasel happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: This Weasel happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had the Bat under his claws, ready to eat him. Who acts: Weasel, 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 12

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This Weasel happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had the Bat under his claws, ready to eat him.

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**Who acts:** Weasel, Bat · **What happens:** happen, be, have, eat · **To what, where:** bitter enemy, Bat

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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 (Weasel, 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:pg19994:109:12
# text = This Weasel happened to be a bitter enemy of Birds, and he soon had the Bat under his claws, ready to eat him.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	Weasel	weasel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	happened	happen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Bat	bat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	claws	claw	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past | this Weasel |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive | this Weasel *not said here* | a bitter enemy |  |  |  | of Birds | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Weasel | the Bat |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive | the Bat *not said here* | Bat |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |

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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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