Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 81
On the contrary, it is a badge of disgrace." Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.
Who acts: contrary · What happens: be, mistake · To what, where: badge, contrary, Notoriety · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (contrary), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 contrary | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 contrary | det |
| 3 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 badge | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 contrary | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 badge | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 badge | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 badge | det |
| 8 | badge | badge | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 disgrace | case |
| 10 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 badge | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 badge | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 badge | punct |
| 13 | Notoriety | notoriety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mistaken | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 mistaken | aux:pass |
| 15 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 mistaken | advmod |
| 16 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 badge | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 fame | case |
| 18 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 mistaken | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | contrary | a badge | the contrary | of disgrace | tree rules | ||
| 2 | mistake in a quote | present · passive | Notoriety | for fame; often property | tree rules |
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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:81.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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