--- title: The Bald Man and the Fly The Bald Knight The Bat And The Weasels The… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: The Bald Man and the Fly The Bald Knight The Bat And The Weasels The Bear and the Fox The Bear and the Two Travelers The Bee and Jupiter The Belly and the Members The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat The Bitch and her Whelps The Blind Man and the Whelp The --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/57/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/) / 57 # Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 15, sentence 57 The Bald Man and the Fly The Bald Knight The Bat And The Weasels The Bear and the Fox The Bear and the Two Travelers The Bee and Jupiter The Belly and the Members The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat The Bitch and her Whelps The Blind Man and the Whelp The Boasting Traveler The Bowman and Lion The Boy and the Filberts The Boy and the Nettles The Boy Bathing The Boy hunting Locusts The Boys and the Frogs The Brazier and His Dog The Brother and the Sister The Buffoon and the Countryman The Bull and the Calf The Bull and the Goat The Bull, the Lioness, and the Wild-Boar Hunter **What happens:** whelp, hunt · **To what, where:** Blind Man, Locusts This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 15. 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. **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:pg21:17:57 # text = The Bald Man and the Fly The Bald Knight The Bat And The Weasels The Bear and the Fox The Bear and the Two Travelers The Bee and Jupiter The Belly and the Members The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat The Bitch and her Whelps The Blind Man and the Whelp The Boasting Traveler The Bowman and Lion The Boy and the Filberts The Boy and the Nettles The Boy Bathing The Boy hunting Locusts The Boys and the Frogs The Brazier and His Dog The Brother and the Sister The Buffoon and the Countryman The Bull and the Calf The Bull and the Goat The Bull, 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fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/58/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/17/)