The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crow, sentence 20
_The flatterer lives at the expense of those who will listen to him.
Who acts: flatterer · What happens: live, listen · To what, where: expense, flatterer
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flatterer), 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 | _ | 4 lives | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 flatterer | det |
| 3 | flatterer | flatterer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 expense | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 expense | det |
| 7 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 those | case |
| 9 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 expense | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 listen | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 listen | aux |
| 12 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 those | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 listen | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the flatterer | the expense of those | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at expense=Location | ||||
| 2 | listen | future | flatterer | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to he=Theme |
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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