The Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Old Rat, sentence 17
_The wise do not let themselves be tricked a second time.
Who acts: wise, tricks · What happens: not let, trick · To what, where: tricks
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Cat and the Old Rat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wise, tricks), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wise | det |
| 3 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 let | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 let | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 let | advmod |
| 6 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 let | obj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 tricked | aux:pass |
| 9 | tricked | trick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 let | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 time | det |
| 11 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 time | amod |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tricked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not let | present · do-support | the wise | tricks = trick | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trick | infinitive · passive | tricks = trick not said here | time | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP» |
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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