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title: But alas! — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But alas! A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rose and the Butterfly, sentence 5

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But alas!

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rose and the Butterfly. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg19994:113:5
# text = But alas!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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