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title: But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a Weasel walked in and calmly made himself at home. Who acts: Rabbit. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat, sentence 2

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But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a Weasel walked in and calmly made himself at home.

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**Who acts:** Rabbit · **What happens:** forget, not latch, be, walk in, make · **To what, where:** door, Rabbit, home

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Rabbit, the Weasel, and the Cat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rabbit), 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:pg19994:66:2
# text = But he forgot to latch the door of his house and while he was gone a Weasel walked in and calmly made himself at home.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	latch	latch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	advcl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	calmly	calmly	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	22	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	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 | **forget** | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **latch** | to-infinitive | Rabbit *not said here* | the door of Rabbit's house |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | past | Rabbit |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **walk in** | past | Rabbit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **make** | past | Rabbit *not said here* | Rabbit |  | home |  | calmly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset himself=Product |

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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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