The Aesop for Children, The Bat and the Weasels, sentence 11
But a few days later, the foolish Bat went blindly into the nest of another Weasel.
Who acts: foolish Bat · What happens: go · To what, where: nest
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.
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 went | cc |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 days | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 days | amod |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 later | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Bat | det |
| 8 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Bat | amod |
| 9 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | blindly | blindly | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 nest | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 nest | det |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 went | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Weasel | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 Weasel | det |
| 17 | Weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nest | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | 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 |
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.
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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