The Aesop for Children, The Fox Without a Tail, sentence 14
_Do not listen to the advice of him who seeks to lower you to his own level.
Who acts: _, advice · What happens: not listen, seek, lower · To what, where: you, own level
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox Without a Tail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (_, advice), 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 | _ | _ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | nsubj |
| 2 | Do | Do | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | nsubj |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 listen | advmod |
| 4 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 advice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 advice | det |
| 7 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 listen | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 advice | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 seeks | nsubj |
| 11 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 advice | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 lower | mark |
| 13 | lower | lower | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seeks | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 lower | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 level | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 level | nmod:poss |
| 17 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 level | amod |
| 18 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lower | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not listen | infinitive | _ | to the advice of Do | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seek | present | the advice of Do | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lower not said to happen | to-infinitive | the advice of Do not said here | you | Do's own level | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to level=Destination |
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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